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What is NOW the Perfect Time For?
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell talked about how in certain industries, the leaders all have clustered birthdays within a few years. They grew up, and right when they hit that sweet spot of maximum freedom and minimal responsibility, along with a budding industry, they started their companies. Bill Gates, Gladwell argues, created a software company at…
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Cook a Super Healthy Meal in One Pot in Twenty Minutes
(Yeah, I should have taken a picture of the meal, but I forgot about a photo until after I finished.) I have no plans to make this blog into the cooking channel, but ever since writing about the MaxDiet, I get a lot of comments about how hard it is to cook healthily and questions…
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My Three Days at Vipassana
I first heard about Vipassana from Rivers Cuomo, the lead singer for Weezer. He was explaining that despite being a rock star, he was celibate because of Vipassana. Powerful stuff, I guess. He raved about the benefits of it, although I don’t remember exactly what he said anymore. It stuck in my mind, and over…
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Six Ways to Be Benefically Weird Today
I was talking with Ramit Sethi the other day, and he said something interesting. He told me that his obsession wasn’t necessarily personal finance, but rather how to actually get people to take action and make changes. We talked about the similarities between pick up and personal finance. Telling someone that they can get better…
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Leaving Los Angeles
Wow. Los Angeles is awesome. I liked it a lot when I lived there back in 2004, but I had forgotten how great it was. I’m in San Francisco now, with no real plans to leave, but if it’s not as great as I imagine it will be, I could easily see myself heading back…
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The 2009 Nomad Packing List
Our most popular Life Nomadic article last year was our complete packing list. Since then we’ve learned a lot, made a lot of changes, and managed to pack a lot more into the same tiny amount of space. There are a few areas where slight improvement could be made, which you’ll hear me talk about…
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RV Questions and Answers
My last post on living in an RV has generated a bunch of questions by comment and by email. Instead of responding to them individually, I’m going to answer them all here. How long did it take you to outfit the RV with solar power? Putting solar power into an RV is a simple job,…
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Six Things I Love About Living in an RV
I was on the phone a couple days ago with my friend Hayden. After hearing about my plan to continue up to San Francisco, he predicted that within a year I would be living “somewhere posh”. I doubt it. I really just love living in this RV, and can’t imagine circumstances that would make me…
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What’s Wrong with Raw Food?
I gave raw food a try a while back for somewhere around forty five days. I bought a dehydrator, made a lot of my own foods, and bought the rest from the Whole Foods raw bar. In the end, I didn’t stick with it. Here’s why: It’s monumentally inconvenient. It’s really easy to eat apples,…
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The West Coast Tour
San Francisco has been calling to me. Maybe it’s the fact that the temperature rarely goes above seventy or below fifty, which makes it perfect for RV living. Or maybe it’s the fact that all of the smart young techies have congregated there. Maybe it’s the cheap(ish) flights to Japan or the abundance of healthy…
