The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

A summary of Gladwell's bestseller that…

How to Read a Book a Week

I did— it for five years straight. You can too.

My belief in Vedic Astrology

Correlating your lifes events based on an interpretation of the solar…

A Daughter Remembers Amorsolo

I interview the daughter of the most influential painter of 20th century…

This is your brain on FOMO

On Smartphone Addiction and The Fear of Missing Out Epidemic

Beginner Warding

Although frequently overlooked by beginners, warding is a crucial aspect to winning games. The main purpose of warding is to…

The Truth About Depression

It’s more than commercials, more than the news. 

A Guide to Significant Living

or why you should live longer

This is How One Reaches the Door of Liberation

Excerpt from Baba Kehar Singh’s Commentary on the Ghat…

Questionable Travel Tips

Best for those of dubious moral character.

Technology can make pain less painful

A plea from a patient with chronic pain

Psychological tests “shot-block” gun ownership?

The Test: to determine who is “sane” enough to own and…

A Month without Alcohol

What I learned about my sober self during #dryjanuary.

Decision-making for startups : the Swadharma way

Be Assertive

It is worth it.

Ideas want to grow and evolve.

Screaming Toward a Sci-Fi Strange Future

Who will write the next ground-breaking science fiction novel?

What to do with your first developmental edit from a real editor

Editing advice for the…

Writing memorable characters

Who is your lead character? What makes your character memorable for your…

1 Promotion, 11 Sutures, a punctured lung & broken rib

The tale of 9/23 a motorist vs. bicycle— One of…

Saying No to Paid Work

A Commentary on the Race to the Bottom

9 Steps to Inhaling the Good Shit & Exhaling the Bull Shit

Tips from a Mindfulness Teacher & Neuro-Rehab Occupational Therapist

“Inhale the good shit & exhale the bullshit.” I love that phrase — It reminds me to learn…

Closure

The most beautiful word after a bad breakup.

Falling Water

Ricketts Glen State Park

The Heart of #Maidan

3 lessons from falling in love in the middle of a crisis

I’ve been working with several cities in Ukraine for the past two years. Working in international affairs means you’re inevitably going to get involved in international…

Fucking up and around

“I will never have a relationship again” I said to myself. Or will I?

Frugal versus Cheap

Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest men, and the most successful investor of the 20th century still lives in the home…

Making Stuff Up

Writing fiction and finding myself, or is it the other way round?

Indiana Jones: “I’m going after that truck.”
Sallah: “How?”
Indiana Jones: “I don’t know. I’m making this up as I go.”
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

The Six Senses of Study

Six ideologies to cope with Higher Education and beyond.

Woven into the Organizational Fabric

Are you somebody we can build something around?

A look back on my 2012 resolutions

Two years later, how am I doing?

This Stranger, Me

In the midst of depression, and waiting.

BJ

Bear Rug Remains

BJ

Bear Rug Remains

No Such Thing As Too Much Passion

Don’t let others extinguish your fire!

Provoking the Muse Like Peter Brady

To invoke the Muse means to ask the goddesses of Art, Science and Literature for inspiration…

Gameplan

Effectively advancing freedom and good governance

Expectations…

Being Realistic vs Idealistic

Innovative Defense

How incumbents can co-opt disruption by not getting fat & happy

You see what You want to see!

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley

Advice for aspiring authors:

Realism matters, but don’t overdo it.

Doing the things we like — that’s why I write

Battling Windmills? If it gives you enjoyment and…

Walk the story 

A tale for our times.

In 2009 a woman walked 2000 miles in flip flops around England for 6 months, visiting people who are transitioning away from fossil fuels. This week I had the great joy of interviewing Steph Bradley and learning from her experiences…

What people wrote on Twitter about Black History Month in 2014.

This article is written on February…