Tag: Mindset

I was going to just email this to Tynan but noticed Tynan.com is running on SETT now so figured, what the hell, I’ll share it with everyone. The reason I came to the site was to find the quote from his post on meditation. It’s the first sentence of the post. “The thing that really…

I did something really scary and dangerous today. I let myself quit. It’s the second day of my Month-of-Pickup, an intensive course correction aimed towards making myself extraverted and social again. Yesterday was the first day. My friend and I set a goal of doing eight approaches each. We did it just as the mall…

*** The average employee does somewhere between 1.5 to 5 hours af actual work per day, depending on whose survey you trust. Let’s say people do three hours of actual focused work. That’s sixty hours of actual work per month. If you’re in a boring job and you’re content to dick around and waste time,…

A couple days ago a guy named Sebastian Marshall wrote an excellent post called, “The Million Dollar Question“. It spoke to me in a way that blog posts rarely do, and prompted me to write this post. In the post, Sebastian is sitting by a train station, watching normal people go by, happily executing their…

Standby flying has always been a bit of a mystery to me, as I’ve heard stories of people flying standby to foreign countries for half the cost of a reserved ticket, but never seen a way to do it. Even after interviewing a few ticket agents, it seems impossible to do this these days, but…

My favorite way to travel is to land in a new country with no plans whatsoever, improvising as we go. That’s what we did in Iceland. I’ve always wanted to go to Iceland, probably because it’s remote and I perceived it to be a weird place. With clever routing you can go there for free…

Almeria turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Our crew, which has grown to nine or so as we’ve made friends aboard the ship, woke up dutifully at 8 in the morning in order to be the first off the ship. Back when I was in the land of plentiful internet, also known as the…

I mentioned last week that I had a deadline which I was working towards. I’m going to explain a bit more about this because a) it’s consuming my life these days and b) I have the feeling this is going to be the beginning of something big. If it is something big, I think it…

Minimalism has been on my mind for a few reasons recently. First, I bought a motorcycle. If minimalism were a religion, I’d probably be excommunicated for having more motorized vehicles than I have pairs of socks (RV, motorcycle, folding scooter, and electric skateboard vs. two pairs of socks). Second, I had a long conversation with…

New Year’s eve is approaching, which means that people are making their New Years’ resolutions and asking me what mine are. I don’t have any, and I think that’s a good thing. The problem with New Years Resolutions is that they’re not motivated by a burning desire to change. Wee all know that most people…