Tag: Productivity

February and March I’m going to spend half in San Francisco and half in Vegas. So I’m buying a bunch of cheap tickets to ping-pong back and forth between the two cities. As I booked these flights I thought about how it became “a thing”. Two months, two cities, back and forth. Those two months…

It’s been a crazy few years. I was going to say few weeks, then few months, and then I thought about it and realized that there’s no reasonable starting point more recent than a few years ago. Since then I’ve been traveling non-stop and have had very little stability. If you rarely travel, you might…

My friends and I do a quarterly accountability group. We come up with our own individual goals and pair them with punishments and rewards. For this quarter, I have a list of ten things to do on CruiseSheet. It’s halfway through the quarter, and although I’ve made progress on a few, I haven’t completed any…

I woke up to a message from my friend Leo, asking if I’d heard the news about Scott. I assumed that it must be some amazing story or accomplishment, as that’s the sort of thing you hear about Scott. “He died. On Kilimanjaro.” The last I’d heard from Scott was ten days prior. Five of…

I’ve been blogging for nine years and five months. That’s a pretty long streak, and I’m sure you can imagine how big of a barrier it creates against me ever quitting. Streaks are a powerful tool in the habit-builder’s arsenal. There’s some magic to them that makes us want to keep them going, just for…

Today I decided to just handle everything that’s been backing up, but hasn’t been a top priority. I set up invoicing for the island and began to collect money from everyone to pay for upcoming expenses. I bought socks. I listed a bunch of stuff on ebay that had been collecting dust for months on…

Everyone wants to work smarter, not harder. No reason not to do both, really, but smarter seems so much more appealing sometimes because it requires less work. The free lunch at the end of that rainbow isn’t always as tasty as we might imagine, but once in a while there is a fundamental change one…

I’ve been called unbalanced many times. Not mentally unbalanced (that I know of), but unbalanced in terms of how I spend my time. I spent a whole year doing nothing but pickup. Three years doing nothing but working 12+ hours a day. A lot of time traveling like a maniac. Sometimes people think I work…

You might wonder why I haven’t mentioned a word about WifeQuest 9000 since posting a post saying I’m single. Maybe you’ve assumed that things are going really poorly, and I don’t want to talk about it. That might be what I would have assumed. The truth is that I’ve had to wait because of a…

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,…