Why I Quit CrossFit

On my very first day of CrossFit, I threw up. It happened my second day, too. And the third. And pretty much all of the…

Why I’m Not a TEDx Speaker

Last week I was invited to speak at a TEDx event, and today I turned that offer down. It’s not that I don’t like TED — I think the organisers have done a great service to popularise thought-provoking ideas in an easily-digestible format. And the subject of the TEDx event, centring…

10 Lessons I learned from a career in advertising

So you don’t have to

I have a friend who’d been working in China for a long time. He said that after a week of being there you feel like you can write a book about China. After a year, you could manage an…

How Writing 1000 Words a Day Changed My Life

(Why behavior matters more than outcomes)

Why I Left Google

Thoughts on trading in pride and security for authenticity

Quitting everything to go to Nepal was the best thing I’ve done.

7 lessons from volunteering in a…

There’s No Painless Way to Kill Yourself

I gave my 11 year old daughter important advice the other day: there’s no painless way to kill yourself.
“What about with a gun?” she said.
I told her about a friend of mine who shot himself in the mouth. He put the gun in his mouth and pointed upwards…

The moment my life changed

And taking risks suddenly became worth it

I ran for a year

My only goal was to keep running.