The Minimalist Guide to Travel Sanity

I’ve been a frequent traveler for a few years now, but since last October things have been ramping up a bit as I try to make my presenting and teaching into a significant income stream.

The Lifelong Study-Buddy Practice

I was having a fascinating discussion with a neuropsychologist, an nurse anesthetist, and a GrandMaster competitive pistol marksman (I know, sounds like the start of a joke, right?) about the differences between good and bad educators. In all of our fields we had…

Why Our Gut Lies

Probably the hardest lesson I’ve had to learn since starting this blog is this: the smart thing rarely feels like the right thing. I literally made the conscious decision to change my behavior — which, at the time, was traveling almost non-stop and living in exciting coastal cities — because even…

What You See

Time for a little speculative extrapolation:

In the excellent book by Nobel-laureate Daniel Kahnemann Thinking Fast and Slow, he talks about a phenomenon he has coined as WYSIATI: What You See Is All There Is:

This theory states that when the mind makes…

Practicing Maker Time

The Hypothesis: As I’ve mentioned a while back, 2015 is a year where my over-arching focus is intended to be a complete abandoning of any “time-management” techniques. That is to say: I don’t want to manage my time, I want to master it. Managing is something you do with what you’re given…

Practicing Micro-Changes

This morning, in the midst of grumping about a lot of things that really didn’t need grumping about, my phone was brightened by a photo from a reader of this blog. The title of the photo was “Gray-induced Micro-Changes” and it looked like this:

Why We Hack Life

As I fight the urge to buy yet another bluetooth keyboard, to start yet another exercise routine, to learn yet another language (“Wouldn’t it be cool,” I asked Natasha the other day, “if my grandsons were bilingual in English and Klingon?”) I wonder at my own dilettante nature. Jack-of-all-trades…