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The Best Laptop That You Don’t Know Exists
Of all the bits of gear, the one thing that fundamentally defines how I’m able to travel is my laptop. I use it to keep in touch with people all over the world, make money, find things to do in each country, and buy my plane tickets. It’s probably my most important possession, which means…
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I Eat Meat Now
A significant amount of people have changed their diet based on my advice, so I feel an obligation to provide updates when I make changes. The debate over the past two weeks, along with additional reading sparked by it, has caused me to change my diet radically. Before I get into that, I want to…
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Managing Time Like Money
I’ve really been thinking a lot about future vs. present, ever since reading The Time Paradox. Do you live every day like it’s your last, do you save everything for the future, or do you find a happy medium? One of the conclusions that I’ve come to, which might be blatantly obvious to everyone but…
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2010 Survey Results
After a long day in the sun at the 2010 Crossfit Games in LA, I’ve flopped into my Aeron in the RV, which is parked near my old stomping grounds in Hollywood. I found an amazing parking spot right near the Farmer’s Market that has no street cleaning and is always empty at night. You’d…
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Full Participation
My friend Anderson and I have created a tradition of visiting Harbin Hot Springs about once a month. It’s a hippie-fueled nudist hot springs resort. The cafeteria serves really good healthy food, the library is a nice quiet place to catch up on reading, and the sun deck is a nice place to sit out…
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A Challenge and Response to The China Study
I woke up one morning last week to a bunch of emails from random people, all suggesting that I check out the same article. A really smart and thorough girl wrote a critique of The China Study which resonated with me. I’ve been sent a few critiques of the China Study before, but none of…
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2010 Tynan.net Survey
Thank You Okay, first of all, THANK YOU for reading Tynan.net. My impulse in every post I write is to express my gratitude to you as a reader, but I don’t because I think it would become annoying and probably not seem as genuine is it really is. So here’s my yearly thank you.…
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Habits, Leverage, and Trees
If you want to totally screw up your life, here’s my advice: cultivate some bad habits. That’s how most people do it. Very few people screw up their lives by drinking once, but a lot of people screw it up by developing a drinking problem. I’ve never heard a story of someone who went…
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Tea Autopsy AND Tynan’s Traveling Tea Set
Athletes aspire to get their own sneaker. I’m not an athlete and I don’t wear sneakers, but today I’m announcing the equivalent in my world: my own tea set! But first, a little background. I don’t remember when I first drank tea, but I do remember that at the time that I found out how…
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Patience
I’m in Tokyo now for the first time in two years, and it’s mostly familiar. Some things don’t change much: the spinach-lentil curry from Nataraj is still a taste bonanza, it’s still confoundingly difficult to wrestle a SIM card from one of the phone companies, and I’m still not equipped with a good enough sense…
