The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact

There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless…

10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Lessons from my book ‘Show Your Work!’

Minimum Viable Ethnography

One question. Fifteen minutes. No excuses.

Who Killed the Somerton Man?

New clues in the 65-year-old mystery provide fresh answers—and even more…

The 10 Commandments of Good Writing

Business writing is terrible. It’s boring. It all sounds the same. Even the grammar is bad.

Good writing is the difference between getting someone’s attention and losing it. And with a little effort, most people can up their writing game…

Where to work

A manifesto.

Some of my friends ask me for advice on how to find a job. Every single time I feel…

How To Get a Lego X-Wing

For a child growing up in the late 90s, the Lego X-Wing was an opportunity to own a part of the Star Wars Universe…

My Investigation Into the Jeff Davis 8 Murders

A look at the documents that informed the story

I’ve spent two years investigating the deaths of eight women in southwest Louisiana. You can read the feature story that came out of that…

WHY I QUIT TAKING HOT SHOWERS

Let me start by saying that I love taking long showers. I do all of my most introspective thinking in the…

An Annotated Version of Thought Catalog’s “21 People You Will Meet In A Washington, DC Bar“

The joys of screen-free thinking.

I like my Internet fast but my reading and writing slow.

This post was originally written by hand.

I have been writing, but if you follow me online there’s no way you could have seen…

Erotic Sensualism in the Writings of Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison

No, GMOs Won’t Harm Your Health

Dr. Steven Novella argues that many of the fears surrounding…

Rare Civil War photo album is Cornell Library’s 8 millionth volume

Write What You Want to Read

How to discover good ideas to write and tell them well 

I Wasn’t Going to Cry this Valentine’s Day

But the Google Doodle shot that all to hell.

Free Lunch to Free Lunch

“Why does your company give you free lunch when you’re the last person who needs it?”

I don’t know.

Ritual life

Make every day more magical

Date a girl who works

The Prologue

An unusual love affair

Love, Maths, Aesthetics 

10 years of travels and photos

A series of articles dedicated to travelers

From Education to Grave Digging

In a few months, I will be releasing my latest game, Grave Matters. As…

Rage

rage for the sake of rage and vice versa

What It Really Means To Practice

Those who succeed in life understand that the journey to perfection…

You’re not from Utah, are you?

We had just barely parked the car, I was at the back opening the tailgate so I could get my sons’ stroller out. It was a glorious February day with temps in the 50s, and my little family was going to make the most of being outside.

Rejecting Society, Embracing Myself

A day’s reflection

Privacy is Theft

a review of The Circle by Wes Brown

It’s Good to Feel Bored

Really, it may save your life…

The Art of Evasion

Why the Twitter Q&A with the central bank governor was a success, and a complete…

What caused the death of religion?

Why were scripture, worship and belief discarded as anachronistic…

To Be Fair

Reply to Critics of Dr. Block’s Assertions About Slavery Being “Not So Bad.”

Baby bump

I’m gonna be a dad!

On an urban hike, my very pregnant wife and I came to the top of a hill near a…

The Era of Internet Indivdualism

More than ever before, a single person can impact anything and everything

The modern Internet has created a phenomena unlike any other: the ability of individuals to cause seismic impacts within the…

New Day, New Destiny

Take in the morning mist new, another day another issue, it’s time to move forward because one day all of this will be…

Acquisitions and Mergers

Fusing people together is a challenge of whether it will gel or rub against each other like leather. If unfit, the surfaces burn, the faces will turn, and it becomes easy to discern oil from water. A bother perceived, then a bother it is, but it’s just an experiment to learn the…

The flow of cookies, chocolate, and milk

Research on attention, friction, and momentum