Play, Travel, & the Meaning of Life

Sometimes when traveling, I mull over the purpose of my trip… and of my life. By the standards of…

Burnt Out and No End in Sight? Do These 10 Things to Cope. 

Collectors Are Made, Not Born

All things goldenrod pencils, Reebok Freestyles, and BIC Cristals.

Bulletproof Willpower

A 30 day challenge to develop the ability to accomplish anything and everything…

How to Improve Resilience: Five Key Actions

An interior coat of paint looks good for only five to ten years. If you don’t scrap…

The stories we tell

On how our stories can redefine our past and invent our future

A tale of 2 GMs: Seattle Seahawks’ John Schneider and Green Bay Packers’ Ted Thompson

Putting the U in User Research

Jamie Crabb

Swirling, Sniffing, Sipping & Spitting

An unpretentious intro to wine for novices

Stop the assembly lines

and let’s try something different.

Special Inconvenience

Life, love, and everything in between

The other day in salsa class, a question was posed by the instructor that has been roaming around in my mind for a while now. Who knew that salsa could make my head spin in more ways than one?

Why do I Write?

The answer is Love.

Money, Insects, & the Renaissance Life

A quick lesson from micro economics 101: If I’m really good at harvesting coconuts and…

Designers: How to start writing.

Empower yourself by sharing

Stop Watching TV & Read a Fucking Book

Television is atrophying your brain. Stop it with a good book…

Be the Fire!

Resilience is just a halfway house

Digital Graffiti: Making Art on Twitter

Jonny Fox uses the microblogging platform to inject art into…

Do Not Be Good, Be Great

The Simple Truth About Excellence

Ownership  

 The Rational behind Visiting Arafat 

Make no mistake: I’m far less qualified to write this article than my more adroit Harvard colleagues. And, if it’s your motive, I’ll make it easy for you to decry me as ignorant and media fodder. I do not understand in…

A Work in Progress

Or How I Learned to Love Again 

I’m putting together a collection of short stories. Mostly old stories, but much improved. Editing reminds me of how much progress I’ve made. It’s an immensely satisfying feeling. These are stories about longing and…

Things Remain Unclear

Musings from our few days and nights in the Holy Land

cold like my soul

It’s getting cold

But I’m getting no shivers

8 Rules of Airplane Etiquette You Just Can’t Break

Our tools have changed

I used to use a pen and paper

When we worked before the internet was so pervasive in our function, we used the following things:

– Pen
– Pencil
– Paper
– Telephone
– Maybe a word processor.

Sitting and Salt

And quoting Neruda

Dome of the Rock

Master and Commander

Adam Wainwright in the stretch

Top 5 Reasons Not to Read Top 5 Lists

Dear fellow interneters. Stop clicking on blog posts that present gratuitous numbered lists…

figuring out “what’s next”

and how to respond to the people who won’t stop asking

Making of life! 

What you should and shouldn't expect in life? And why?

Shortcuts & safe choices

Art, originality and genius, never come from “it’s like….with….but….”

How do we get blogging ideas? Stealing? Brainstorming?

Where do our ideas come from.

Fear

fear of hardships

People go through a lot. We all have, or rather create problems, that bother us. There are hardships in all of our lives, things that completely take us off track and leave us wandering around, hopeless and scared, of what might happen next. And slowly but surely…

What I would do if I won Buffett’s billion

Yesterday I filled out my bracket for March Madness. Every year at least one of the…

Letting Go.

Get it out, and keep it moving. 

I’m learning that letting go of things is a beautiful action.

Not go as in totally forgetting and giving up, but go as in making the decision to stop worrying. Releasing emotions over something or…

Disclaimer: I'm human.

In case you haven't noticed.