Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box

A pending settlement to ban juvenile…

How I Used Gary Vaynerchuk’s Advice To Make $5,000 In 20 Minutes

And Teach My Son How To Start a…

To My Sons: Lessons on Manhood I Learned From Your Father

Dear Boys,

Live a Ruthless Via Negativa

Cut, Cut, Cut

How To Avoid Huge Ships

5 things you didn’t know about the essential tome

GOTO 10

My stories of geeks in trailer parks, alcoholism, and loss

Marriage Has Ruined My Social Life

The never-ending challenge to keep in touch as we grow older.

Trust thy user.

Lessons for Product Owners and Interaction Designers

Video Animation: “The Box”—Ismael Nazario’s Story

A former teenage inmate tells how he was sent down to Rikers and spent more than 300 days in solitary, before he was ever convicted of a crime

Baseball Misfits

There’s a weird schism between geeks who love sports and those who don’t.

Hubig’s Pies

This story has nothing to do with pie.

Why We Want To Be Obsolete

Transforming a design firm

Mesmerizing Kinderdijk

High times in the Dutch land of folk tale.

Year Abroad. Worth the plunge?

Could it be the “best year of your life”?

Things I’d Like to Tell My Daughter

I am young. Who knows if I will have any kids. One day, yes, I hope so — but nothing is set in stone. Who knows how many I’ll have. But If I have a daughter there are a few things I’d like to her learn and know.

Dear possible future…

Whenever this Dog Jumps on a Public Bus in Africa, Trouble Follows

As the discussion of dogs in…

When Is Beer More Than Beer?

Otherwise known as one Porter and one Stout

Back to the Dust

Taking stock of our lives and purpose

Strength Precedes Balance

I have been practicing yoga for a long time. One thing I’ve been frustrated with over the years is my inability to…

Get unstuck, it is ridiculously simple. 

a short story on how simple it can be to get unstuck.

Frozen in our tracks.

March first. Zero degrees Fahrenheit. The high temperature for the day. Same as the day before. And for who knows how…

Among the Scarred

I first put on the uniform when I was nine years old. My sister Bethanie and I were playing army, crawling around on the grass…

Forget your brand and remember the HUMAN.

I wanted this to be a piece on email marketing but then my brain did a fart and now…

“… Dad?”

Okay. This is it. Houston, the toddler is asking The Question.

My almost-three-year-old and I were kicking back on the beanbag: Bambi was in the DVD player, and we had a weekend full of mom-ignoring-all-the-stuff-she-has-to-do to get to. I was…

Guru

Who is Guru? What he does? Why we need Guru?

Holy and Hardbody

Pouring oil on my playlist

Teaching in the afternoon is a trip. I could set my lesson plans for the week with my curriculum in one hand and the lunch menu in the other. Mac and cheese on Thursday? Lemme make sure we watch a video then. Breakfast for…

Cement Tattoos

When unlit cars would search the street’s edges for desperate hands
The ones that skimmed the sky begging for an escape
That’s when…

Words

Defiance through words

I no longer question why I write. Since I first discovered the power of words at the age of 11, I have always been caught up in the world of literature. Worlds opening up to me, cultures being revealed, the vast richness of this planet’s diversity and…

In a world of consumers, I want to produce

How producing content helps to find meaning

Learning the hard way

Writing the easy way