Year: 2018
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New Book Release: Forever Nomad
It’s here! Once again I’ve forgotten to whet everyone’s appetite by constantly mentioning my book until the release day, but I’ve always been more into getting books out than marketing them. Starting today, you can buy my latest book, Forever Nomad. The idea behind the book is that when I wrote Life Nomadic, my first…
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How Hard Do I Actually Work?
Once in a while people who meet me give me the feedback that they’re surprised that I’m actually a real person who doesn’t just work 24/7. A challenge of being a public writer is balancing giving useful information versus giving an accurate picture. I think a lot of the confusion comes from a post I…
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Kindness in Tea Culture
Take it easy, she said. A-Yi, a middle-aged Taiwanese woman, rushed us out the door. Go eat! Enjoy! Thirty seconds earlier we sat at her table and enjoyed the two different teas that she prepared for us. I tried to pay, but she wouldn’t have it. Take it easy. Odd behavior for a woman who…
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Superhuman Event #1 Post Mortem
For years I’ve thought about doing a live event for my readers. It’s always been on the backburner as I’ve thought about formats and group sizes, but my friend Leo Babauta challenged me to set a date and just do one, so I did. Last weekend ten people came into town for a 1.5 day…
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When People Think You’re Crazy
The first thing I did where I was aware that people thought I was crazy was to buy a school bus with my friends. In retrospect it probably wasn’t the first time people thought I was crazy, just the first time it was so obvious that I couldn’t ignore it. I was somewhat oblivious back…
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Never Worrying
One of my friends likes to remind me that everyone is worrying all the time, because he senses that I almost never worry. He’s right, and when I do worry it tends to be a more active process where there’s something happening and I’m trying to figure out what to do about it. I’m not…
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Why That Amount?
In one of my (many) posts about optimizing, someone made a comment to the effect of, “What’s the point of optimizing everything? Eventually you’ll optimize your entire life away and have nothing left to do.” That reminded me of what people say when they hear that I’m being cryogenically frozen when I die. Very often…
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Local and Global Optimization
It cost me about $100 to go to my friend’s Christmas party. I had to buy a cheap flight from Vegas to San Francisco, and then a couple uber rides to and from the party. On the surface, that doesn’t make all that much sense to do. But I made a deal with myself—any time…
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Mega Review of Teforia, The $1000 Tea Brewer
I remember hearing about the Teforia a long time ago. The story around it was that it was this comically overpriced tea brewer, often compared with the Juicero, that symbolized what was wrong with Silicon Valley. So, of course, I took very little interest in it. I like brewing tea and, having brewed it at…
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Consolidation
My main goal as a writer is to write pieces that will spark a permanent positive change for someone. I assume that most posts won’t do that for anyone, but if I write enough and have enough people read my posts, it will happen from time to time. I read a lot of blog posts…