Year: 2014
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Where Your Advantages Will Come From
Since you’re reading my blog, it’s probably fair to guess that you’re not content to coast through life, and that you’ve got ambitions that you’re chasing. Maybe, like mine, these ambitions are beyond your current scope. They’re things that will require years of effort to achieve, and maybe the feasibility of ever achieving them is…
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My New Book: Superhuman by Habit
After many months of being deprioritized due to Sett and other obligations, I’ve finally finished my new book on habits, Superhuman by Habit. It’s available right now on Amazon. I’ve been writing for nine years now, and a good portion of that time has been spent focused on self-improvement. How can I get the most…
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How To Earn Hundreds of Thousands of Frequent Flyer Miles Every Year
As I write, I’m flying over Wyoming on my way to Kansas City, Missouri. I’ll be there for approximately fourteen hours, just long enough to watch the Invicta FC 8 Women’s MMA fight and then get some sleep. Such opulence! To fly across the country just to go to a sporting event. The truth, though,…
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How to Be Frugal And Live a Good Life
I think that the way most people spend money is absolutely nuts. I see people buying things they can’t really afford, or things that will have no lasting impact on their lives whatsoever, and I cringe. Be frugal, I want to yell. On the other hand, there are people who go way out of their…
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All in the Preparation
I’m always interested in finding blind spots or misconceptions in common knowledge. Most people don’t seem to really get what they want out of life, and while this is partly fueled by society pushing wants on people, it’s also due to blind spots. Sometimes big problems go unsolved not because we’re incapable of solving them,…
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One Year Update on the Island We Bought
It’s been nearly a year since we bought an island near Halifax. We went in being completely clueless, our only salvation knowing that we were completely clueless and would have to learn a lot. And boy, have we. I’ve spent more time on the island than in my RV over the past couple months, and…
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The Magical Cure-All Elixir
It’s day five of the fifth trip to our island. We don’t yet have any sort of permanent structure, so even with cots, sleep isn’t perfect. And there’s the irregular meal schedule, the hard work, and the lack of good hygiene. All of these factors wear you down a little bit as the days go…
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Treating People Like People
Las Vegas is a city that has its own set of rules and norms. When you check into a hotel in any other city, you get the room that you paid for. But Vegas is built on comps and kickbacks, and the room you end up in doesn’t necessarily have much to do with the…
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Digging Down When You Face Problems
My life is so good that I really have no call to complain or worry about anything. That doesn’t always stop me, though. Last night I got some bad news and discovered that the yurt we’re planning on raising definitely won’t get there in time. It’s not going to be crated up for a few…
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Suffer Now
I’m exhausted. I took a red-eye from Las Vegas to DC, which is a bad idea to begin with because the flight is only four hours long. Even if you sleep the whole time, you’re still exhausted. I didn’t sleep, though, partly because it’s hard to sleep on planes, and partly because the largest airplane…