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2010 Tynan.net Survey
Thank You Okay, first of all, THANK YOU for reading Tynan.net. My impulse in every post I write is to express my gratitude to you as a reader, but I don’t because I think it would become annoying and probably not seem as genuine is it really is. So here’s my yearly thank you.…
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Habits, Leverage, and Trees
If you want to totally screw up your life, here’s my advice: cultivate some bad habits. That’s how most people do it. Very few people screw up their lives by drinking once, but a lot of people screw it up by developing a drinking problem. I’ve never heard a story of someone who went…
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Tea Autopsy AND Tynan’s Traveling Tea Set
Athletes aspire to get their own sneaker. I’m not an athlete and I don’t wear sneakers, but today I’m announcing the equivalent in my world: my own tea set! But first, a little background. I don’t remember when I first drank tea, but I do remember that at the time that I found out how…
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Patience
I’m in Tokyo now for the first time in two years, and it’s mostly familiar. Some things don’t change much: the spinach-lentil curry from Nataraj is still a taste bonanza, it’s still confoundingly difficult to wrestle a SIM card from one of the phone companies, and I’m still not equipped with a good enough sense…
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The Easy Way to Beat Jet Lag
Someone (@philiplilly) asked me how I deal with jet lag. I fired off a quick answer (“adjust to the target time ASAP”), which I only later realized isn’t what I actually do. It’s what everyone else does. So here’s what I really do: I cut my sleep into two chunks, one corresponding to a normal…
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Own Your Life
One of the great sacrifices of subjecting kids to school is that it trains them to ask for permission for everything, from turning in work late, to changing to a different class, to more mundane things like going to the bathroom. It’s a tradeoff, of course: condition kids to seek permission for everything, and by…
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Be a Producer
I hadn’t seen Mystery in half a year or so. Lots to catch up on. “How have you been?” “Great, you?” “Great. You have to see my iPad.” And so, for the next two hours I was guided through every last feature of the iPad. For the two day history of the iPad being in…
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Life Nomadic is Available on Amazon NOW
I think the people who pre-ordered for Haiti have had enough time to read the book, so now it’s time to make it available to everyone. You can buy the book here at Amazon! In case you’re new to the site, I haven’t had a regular condo or house in 4 years or so, and…
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The Meaning of Life Doesn’t Matter
One of the questions I tend to get is what I think the meaning of life is. I never have a good answer because I’ve never tried to answer the question. And I’ve never tried to answer the question because I don’t think that it matters. As children we’re conditioned to do what we’re supposed…
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Not Liking vs. Not Knowing
Do you like racing big wheels down the hills in the rain? I do. When I was in middle school, I was a picky eater. I didn’t eat meat and I didn’t eat any vegetables besides corn, potatoes, and artichokes. If it weren’t for my parents cleverly blending all sorts of vegetables into pasta sauce,…
