• The Most Important Thing in The World

    The Most Important Thing in The World

    A couple weeks ago I did an “I Am A” on Reddit about being a former pickup artist, which meant that thousands of people could ask me questions about it. And they did. The questions flooded in faster than I could reasonably respond to them, which meant that sometimes I didn’t answer in as much…

  • The Five Golden Rules of Favor Asking

    The Five Golden Rules of Favor Asking

      My friend Elisia asked me to help her move. Moving is one of my least favorite activities (which partially explains why I live in an RV), but I gladly agreed to help. Why? Because she followed the golden rules of asking favors. If you want people to do you favors, or, more importantly, feel…

  • I Will Teach You to be Rich Contest Results

    I Will Teach You to be Rich Contest Results

    On Tuesday I announced a contest to help Ramit promote his upcoming six week financial bootcamp. The premise was this: we played five rounds of Liar’s Poker, and whoever could guess the final score and guess the final digits on our last dollar bills would win. Before I show you the video with the results,…

  • VIDEO and CONTEST – Ramit Sethi’s Financial Bootcamp

    VIDEO and CONTEST – Ramit Sethi’s Financial Bootcamp

    One of the more interesting people I’ve met since moving to San Francisco is Ramit Sethi, bestselling author and blogger at I Will Teach You to Be Rich. He takes an out of the box approach towards personal finance that resonates well with me. In particular I like how he focuses on conscious spending and…

  • The Peg System: How to Memorize Lists of Ten in Twenty Seconds

    The Peg System: How to Memorize Lists of Ten in Twenty Seconds

      I first learned about the peg system through pickup. The idea was simple: rather than bore a girl with dumb stories about work and parties like every other guy, you teach her an interesting skill. The next day the one guy she remembers is the one who stood out and taught her something. And…

  • VIDEO: Tour of my RV

    VIDEO: Tour of my RV

    I just got my amazing new camera, the Panasonic GF1, so naturally I wanted to put it to use and make a video. Make videos with that thing is a ton of fun, so expect more videos soon (skateboards and mopeds coming up soon). The first video is a tour of my RV, including a…

  • I Need Your Feedback on Life Nomadic

    I’m getting close to having Life Nomadic laid out for print. Before I commit a version of it to something as permanent as paper, I’d like to get your feedback. Specifically: What did you want to hear about that I DIDN’T write about? What did I talk about that you didn’t care about? What was…

  • Why I Don’t Buy Apple Products

    Why I Don’t Buy Apple Products

    This won’t quite be the Apple bashing that people probably expect. To start off, I don’t hate Apple. I think that they’re a spectacular company that does a lot of very smart things. I think that they build relatively high quality products and do a good job of supporting them. Even if I don’t buy…

  • Three New Awesome Pieces of Gear

    Three New Awesome Pieces of Gear

      One of the major advantages of having almost no possessions is that I can spend time to make sure that each thing I own really is the best possible product. I spend hours researching alternatives for just about everything major that I own, hoping to find something good enough to warrant the hassle and…

  • A Simple Accountability System You Can Start Today

    A Simple Accountability System You Can Start Today

    There are complicated productivity systems and there are simple ones. Both can be effective, but simple ones are much easier to stick to. Somewhere in the end of my travels abroad this year I fell off the productivity train. Not entirely, but I had reverted back to “doing what needs to be done” instead of…