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What Your Priorities Are
It’s always better to look at actions than words. If someone says that they’re committed to being healthy, but then they order a fat stack of pancakes… well, maybe they’re not so committed after all. Recently I’ve been thinking about this truism in terms of goals and priorities. Your priorities are what they look like.…
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Tulum
When you write every day, coming up with topics becomes the hard part of it all. So whenever I go on a trip, I try to wring a post out of it. In some cases, like the Peru trek, the thread is easy to find and get on paper, but today is my last day…
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If Not This One
A friend of mine founded a company with another guy. When they started out, their lives and ambitions were very similar, even if the principles bubbling below the surface weren’t. One thing they both had in spades was hustle. They did what it took– no matter what– to keep their business going forward. Over time,…
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Happiness and Satisfaction
Seven years ago, I wrote a post called “How to Be Happy. Always.” It’s pretty poorly written, but starts off with an important concept– we live in a society where happiness is the number one priority. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No one really questions that, but maybe we should. Is happiness really…
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Creators and Assemblers
I had tea with my friend Joey the Cat today. He’s the number one ranked skeeball player in the US and has a small skeeball empire of his own, refurbishing machines, and then renting them out or reselling them. He told me about a skeeball trailer he made– two skeeball lanes that you can pull…
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Two New Bloggers on SETT!
I can’t tell you how excited I am to share this news. As some of you may have already noticed, there are two more blogs on SETT, bringing the count to four. As I’ve mentioned before, I only read about four blogs regularly. One of those is Sebastian Marshall, which is why I’m especially proud…
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Tynan vs. the Peruvian Andes
A couple months ago I was minding my own business, reading a book, about to go to sleep. I give twitter one last check on my phone and see a message from my friend Jenna telling me of a deal to go to Lima, Peru for $380 round trip. I have no particular reason to…
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What Shape are You?
This post is a guest post from my friend Brian Sharp My post before this was a kind of therapy / Buddhism / personal growth kind of deal, but I also spend a lot of time thinking about how to run effective teams and to be a responsible, thoughtful manager of people. It is my…
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Where the Line Is
When you’re doing something hard, the effort curve looks something like a bell curve. At first, as you’re dabbling in it, you don’t put in much effort. Then it progressively gets harder and harder until you finally reach that peak. That’s when you “make it” and things start to get a little easier. But we…
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Beating Someone at His Own Game
As babies we learn through imitation. We use our unrefined motor control skills to mimic what our parents do, and eventually with enough practice, most of us master the basics like eating and speaking. The problem is that many people stay in this imitation phase for their whole lives, always having someone that they’re trying…
