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Happy With The Best Possible Option
My motorcycle gave me three years of virtually no problems. Then water got into the tank and caused it to intermittently stop running. A week after I had that fixed, the fuel pump broke, maybe because of the water issue. Once that was fixed, the bike felt better than ever, and I felt good making…
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Doing Things Every Day
Let’s say you’re going to put ten hours of effort into something, either a project or a habit. Your goal, or one of them, is to get as much out of those ten hours as possible. What will be important at the end isn’t the number of hours put in, but the results. One of…
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Food is Bad Entertainment
You don’t have to look very far to see indicators that maybe we don’t have the best relationship with food. Most people are overweight, unhealthy, and making little to no effort to change those things. These are, presumably, good people who want to do what’s best for themselves and their families. The problem with our…
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Joking Around With Strangers
I can’t imagine that working at a car rental place is much fun. Especially if you’re working in Las Vegas and the line is full of angry customers who have waited an hour only to be barraged with company-managed upsells. I wasn’t angry, but I was definitely in line for about an hour waiting to…
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The Importance of Having Varied Interests
My friend Jimmy was working on his business, Minaal. Every once in a while, when you’re really working hard, you need to come up for air and take a break. You want to do something that uses the opposite side of your brain to give the analytical side a break. Not sure if that’s how…
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Why Pack Ultralight
I really agonized over the purchase of my latest jacket. For about fifty dollars more, I could get a jacket that was .8 ounces lighter than the other one. It sounds crazy just writing that. In the end I found a deal to get that jacket for the same price, so I was spared the…
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I Love Budapest
I’m not sure how many countries I’ve visited in the past year, but the fact that I have no idea gives you an idea. Four in the past week, if you don’t count the US. A lot of good flight deals popped up, and I booked them more quickly than I could ask myself if…
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Two Things to Build
I think that there are two main things worth building in life, not as ultimate life goals, but as valuable waypoints to whatever goals you may have. Those two things are an amazing group of friends and enough money to survive for a long time. To some people, mostly those who have already done it,…
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Morning Tea in Amsterdam
Some cities I love because they’re full of things I like to do. Tokyo, Shanghai, and Budapest, for example. Others I love because of how they feel, but I don’t always know what to do with myself there. Amsterdam is one of those cities. I love walking along the canals, I love seeing people biking,…
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What Should You Do Next?
When I hit them up for blog post ideas, my friends say that I should write posts about how I decide what to do next. I’m not sure if it’s because they think I make good decisions when faced with the question, or because my choices are so bizarre that they require explanation. I don’t…
