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Getting Huge Chunks of Work Done
This feels like a slightly ironic title, as today I spent sixteen hours showing my cousin and her boyfriend around one of my favorite cities in the world, Budapest. No work, except for writing this post before I go to sleep. On the other hand, the only reason I can take a full day off…
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Getting to Unlimited Runway
Due to CruiseSheet growing and my new coaching project, my income has gone up quite a bit compared to previous years. This has been a strange transition for me, as I’m used to being the guy who doesn’t really make much money, but does clever things to maximize it. Now I have a more normal…
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Strong Defaults
I have a technique that I use to deal with a lot of situations that I call setting strong defaults. It started with dating as a means to eliminate the ridiculous and common “but where do YOU want to eat?” loop where each person keeps asking the other person where they want to eat, and…
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Help Shape Life Nomadic 2
I’m about halfway through a transatlantic cruise, which means I’m also halfway through writing a new book. This time I’m writing a follow-up to Life Nomadic, since so much has changed about traveling and being a nomad since I wrote my first book. Also, the tech section in that book is embarrassingly out of date,…
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Thinking About Quality
When you travel most of the time and do it with only a small backpack, eventually all of your travel gear becomes very high quality. You buy something nice, love using it, and it retains its utility for a long time. If you buy something low quality, it breaks or frustrates you, and you end…
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Living an Aligned Life
Most people don’t live a life that’s in alignment with what they want to do. That’s not a criticism of any of those people; for our entire history as a species we have had to spend most of our time doing things we don’t want to do in order to survive. All of us are…
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The Benefit of Automating Everything
Today I woke up to the alarm I set on my phone. My bedroom curtains opened automatically, triggered by the alarm. I walked into the bathroom to brush my teeth. On my mirror, which has a 40″ LCD hidden behind it, I saw my agenda and noticed that one of my coaching clients had booked…
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What I Love and Hate About Vegas, Two Years In
When I first bought my place in Vegas, I did it only because it was an incredible deal. As a frequent visitor to Vegas I assumed that I’d stay there once in a while, and AirBnb it out to recoup my costs. Or if it turned out that I really came to dislike Vegas after…
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Put Yourself Out There
It’s easy to analyze when things go poorly, but that it doesn’t come as naturally when things are going well. When things are good it’s very easy to just brush it away by assuming that the success was somehow due to you. I know I’ve thought that many times, especially when I was younger. As…
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Coaching
(Note: I’m no longer taking on new coaching clients, but will continue to work with existing ones. I may offer a different coaching program in the future) Due to overwhelming reader demand, I have begun to offer personal coaching on a limited basis. Those whom I coach now have chosen to work with me because…
