Boredom: The Fallow Ground Where Everything Important Grows
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. There is a farmer in Portugal I spend time with who is special. To his neighbors, he's an enigma:…
What To Do When the Efficiency Trap Is Making You Miserable
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. A machine exists to transform inputs into outputs. Fuel in, motion out. Hours in, results out. A garden exists…
When Giving Up the Ghost Sets You Free
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The chair sat empty for four years. Not physically empty, I kept it pulled up to the table, napkin…
The Humbling of a Know-It-All
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The contractor didn't raise his voice. That was the worst part. He just pointed at the wall, my wall,…
Empty Promises Cut Both Ways
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. I sat across from my friend David at a coffee shop. He was late. Again. Forty minutes this time.…
The Mountain We Carry: Dropping the Weight of Your Stuff
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. There's a specific exhaustion that comes from living in a museum of your failed ambitions. Walk through your home…
Minimalism in Life: The Geometry of What Remains
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. Philip Glass was playing "Metamorphosis" in the bookstore when I witnessed a man cry over a blank notebook. He'd…
The Spite Engine: Why Great Founders are Fueled by What They Hide
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. Every celebrated leader is a liar. Not because they're malicious, but because their survival depends on a beautifully curated…
The Geometry of the Glitch: Why We Are Not Born to Multitask
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. I was watching a pianist try to play jazz while solving a Rubik's Cube. He wasn't doing either. He…
Desuetude: The Geometry of Letting Your Old Self Fade Away
This post may contain affiliate links. Reading Time: 8 mins #Leonard Cohen was singing "Anthem" when I finally understood why my old business cards felt like tombstones. "There is a…