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Get Rid of Half of Your Stuff
I had to double, and then triple, check this, but apparently I’ve never written a post on minimalism before. Then again, I live in an RV smaller than your walk-in closet, so I don’t suppose this post will come as a surprise to anyone. Still, it’s probably worth writing a few paragraphs about it for…
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Friends on Pause
I land in Narita Airport, Japan, pull two thousand Yen out of the ATM, and get on the train for Tokyo. From memory I walk down familiar streets until I get to the New Zealand Embassy in northern Shibuya, where my friend Elliot lives. I haven’t seen him in almost two years, and have only…
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I Got Twitter.com/Tynan!
Fresh off my eleventh hour victory in buying Tynan.com, I turned my sights at my next vanity obsession, the @tynan Twitter username. I was late on the Twitter train, and by the time I climbed aboard, @tynan was taken. I settled for @tynanbtyb, which made sense back when my site was called Better Than Your…
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The Five Year Battle With a Domain Squatter for Tynan.com
First off, let me say this: BOOM! I got Tynan.com! YES!! Okay. So back when I was in high school, I had the idea that maybe this internet thing was going to work out, and I might want to own Tynan.com. I put www.networksolutions.com into trusty old Internet Explorer 3.0, searched for tynan.com, saw that…
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Defined By Your Worst
I’ve had a rough week. No deaths in the family or anything seriously bad, but it’s been a bit emotionally draining. Finally got in touch with the guy who owns Tynan.com, and he refused to sell to me at any price. A writer I was really hoping to work with decided not to contribute to…
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How to Build the Smallest World Class Camera System
I spent $1800 on my first high quality camera. I was on the brink of Life Nomadic, and I justified the purchase with two ideas. The first was that I would be seeing a lot of things for the first, and possibly the only, time. Second, the particular camera I bought, an Epson R-D1s, seemed…
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No Filter
Today at lunch a waitress sat down with my friend and I. We go to this particular restaurant often and are chatty, so we’re friends enough to sit together during her break, but not enough to make plans outside of the restaurant. She told us that she was raped in the past. Now, this…
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The 2010 Travel Gear Post
Now it’s time for the one post that everyone’s been waiting for. The 2010 Gear Post. For a quick background: my method is to have very few items, all of which are as small as possible and as awesome as possible. The goal is to have a tiny bag but be prepared for absolutely everything.…
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How to Have a Workplace Everywhere in the World for $4.18 a Month
When Todd and I arrived in Panama the second time, we couldn’t find a decent apartment to rent. Prices had gone up by 50% since the last time we visited, and it was Carnaval Season, which crushed availability. So we stayed in a hostel. The location was great, our room was decent enough, but to…
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One Thousand Words a Day
I ‘m actually a few days in to my thousand word a day experiment, and it has now occurred to me that the first day’s writing probably should have been about what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. Better late than never. I listened to good interview with Chris Guillebeau, and he said that…
