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I send an email several times a year with a handful of the most interesting things I’ve written or uncovered at home, abroad, and on the web.
I send an email several times a year with a handful of the most interesting things I’ve written or uncovered at home, abroad, and on the web.
Why straight lines are slower than we think.
Continue reading →Why being early is more difficult than it seems.
Continue reading →A macro analysis of Sacramento home price per square foot performance.
Continue reading →The three things all successful products get right.
Continue reading →A minimalist definition of intelligence.
Continue reading →A macro analysis of major metro home price performance and affordability.
Continue reading →A macro analysis of home price performance and affordability.
Continue reading →Distinguishing between price and purchasing power.
Continue reading →On having fun and being unbeatable.
Continue reading →Some brief thoughts and resources for managing and investing capital.
Continue reading →On measuring value with a shrinking measuring stick.
Continue reading →A framework for max uncertainty.
Continue reading →On the pricelessness of temporary things.
Continue reading →On creating products that matter.
Continue reading →On pairing form and intention.
Continue reading →On reading spiritual texts allegorically rather than literally.
Continue reading →On death, evolution, and eternity.
Continue reading →On designing each facet of our lives with intention.
Continue reading →On using cost-of-change to guide process design for a project.
Continue reading →On creating space now for the things that bring us fulfillment.
Continue reading →On finding the balance between input and output.
Continue reading →On identifying and sequencing the actions that matter most.
Continue reading →On using discontent to improve wellbeing.
Continue reading →A career of sprints is an exhausting prospect.
Continue reading →On choosing what to make from the materials we’ve been given.
Continue reading →On seeing truth through the lens of time and evolution.
Continue reading →On identifying our unique recipe for living that maximizes fulfillment.
Continue reading →On the universe’s essential nature and its posture towards us.
Continue reading →On understanding how we’re wired.
Continue reading →On the relationship between rebellion and freedom.
Continue reading →On the power of decoupling impact from hours worked.
Continue reading →On the experience of being a knowledge worker.
Continue reading →On using action to figure out what to do next.
Continue reading →On making things that make you feel free.
Continue reading →On how to approach design problems.
Continue reading →On reducing my reliance on list keeping to help put first things first.
Continue reading →On expressing gratitude while embracing randomness.
Continue reading →On figuring out what should belong and what shouldn’t.
Continue reading →On discovering who we are by stripping away all that we aren’t.
Continue reading →On why adding headcount doesn’t make up for poor management or process.
Continue reading →On how to start a business.
Continue reading →The big things are made up of the small things.
Continue reading →On judging philosophy by the quality of life it creates.
Continue reading →On beauty, craft, self awareness, and community.
Continue reading →On moving from the fringe to the middle.
Continue reading →On the relationship between circumstance and choice of response.
Continue reading →On the importance of consistently showing up.
Continue reading →On balancing advancing consciousness and connection with the natural world.
Continue reading →On using a process of elimination to find your passion.
Continue reading →On living more fully here and now.
Continue reading →On leveraging our circumstances for growth.
Continue reading →On appreciating the wonder we’re a part of.
Continue reading →On reconnecting with the fun that drew you into creative work.
Continue reading →On the unique and personal nature of fulfillment.
Continue reading →On the costs and difficulty of achieving upward mobility.
Continue reading →On emergent phenomena and why it’s the engine of the universe
Continue reading →On the spectral nature of fate and fullness.
Continue reading →On the difference between perfectionism, craftsmanship, and laziness.
Continue reading →On the ebbs and flows of making things.
Continue reading →On using degrees of certainty to make product decisions.
Continue reading →On the fluid nature of our beings.
Continue reading →On achieving better performance with less effort.
Continue reading →On patient accumulation, asymmetric bets, and winning Monopoly.
Continue reading →On why societies fail when they leave too many people behind.
Continue reading →On allowing time to weather your work.
Continue reading →On assembling a mosaic of methods for defining the many layers of reality.
Continue reading →On our need to merge science and mysticism.
Continue reading →On why the action is here, and always will be.
Continue reading →On having the courage to build less.
Continue reading →On being a more valuable contributor to conversations.
Continue reading →On how to use fidelity as a communication tool.
Continue reading →On the power of simple-yet-tough decisions repeated consistently over time.
Continue reading →On identifying what we can control and releasing ourselves from the rest.
Continue reading →On how to hold your creative work more loosely.
Continue reading →On the relationship between population density, regulations, and taxes.
Continue reading →On seeking health, fulfillment, and joy daily.
Continue reading →On just how fleeting our time together in this life really is.
Continue reading →On the importance of considering the people behind the things we buy.
Continue reading →On the costs of relocating your home base.
Continue reading →A brief overview of the relationship between Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO.
Continue reading →On what we seek when we travel.
Continue reading →On the fleetingness of life and the benefits of not believing in an afterlife.
Continue reading →On the importance of making things in community.
Continue reading →A lesson about reconnecting with the now.
Continue reading →A story about the art of anything.
Continue reading →A mediation on making room for ideas and bringing them to life.
Continue reading →A mental model for generating change.
Continue reading →A perfectionist’s guide to writing (and sharing) more easily.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to David Gerber. David is a life and leadership coach who works with individuals, teams, and organizations to help them reach their full potential.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Kevin Knox. Kevin serves as the chaplain to the California Golden Bears and is the pastor of Mosaic Bay Church in Berkeley, California.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Paul Di Giordano. Paul is the founder of Lounge of Life, a Sacramento, California-based alternative night life experience that gives people a safe place to socialize without feeling the pressures of excessive drinking, drugs, and promiscuity.
Continue reading →On finding the courage to live the life we were created for.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Jeff Cook. Jeff is a former church planter, pastor, professor, and now the Fellows Academic Director of CrossPurpose, a Denver, Colorado-based organization working to abolish economic, spiritual, and relational poverty through the power of redemptive relationships.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Blake Smith. Blake is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cladwell, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based startup who is blending software and fashion to help people create simple, minimal, personalized “capsule” wardrobes.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to James Delarato. James is the Planting Pastor of Citizens San Francisco, an emerging community based in San Francisco’s Haight district.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Brian Moll. Brian is a former pastor and church planter and now the Executive Director, Bay Area of Defy Ventures, an entrepreneurship, employment, and leadership training program that serves people with criminal histories in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Kyle Brooks. Kyle is the founding pastor of Oakland Startup Church, an emerging community located in the heart of Oakland, CA.
Continue reading →Making sense of the growing homeless population and it’s relationship to the amount of support that’s available to them.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Jeremiah Aja. Jeremiah is the President of Forge Sacramento, an organization devoted to training men and women to live as missionaries in their neighborhoods, and Tell It Well, Inc., a Sacramento based marketing and branding agency.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Ruthie Kim. Ruthie is the founder and Director of Because Justice Matters, a San Francisco based organization reaching women who experience exploitation and isolation.
Continue reading →Processing the pain and promise of progress in the epicenter of disruption, San Francisco.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Travis Clark. Travis and his wife Jena are the founding pastors of Canvas, a young, thriving, and inspiring community based in San Francisco.
Continue reading →This week we’d like to introduce you to Craig Kelley. Craig is the founding pastor of Gold Country Church, a thriving and inspiring community based in Auburn, CA.
Continue reading →On the primal elements that unlock our innate desire to be generous
Continue reading →On the importance of seeking to resolve seemingly contradictory truths.
Continue reading →On the myth of overnight success.
Continue reading →On the importance of seeking out new perspectives and experiences.
Continue reading →On learning to experiment and embrace failure as integral ingredients to success.
Continue reading →On the power of decoupling our time from our income.
Continue reading →On the importance of creating for yourself and no one else.
Continue reading →On why we can’t be free until we know why we want to be free.
Continue reading →On why creativity ultimately has nothing to do with what we make and everything to do with what living a life of courage makes of us.
Continue reading →On the danger of talking away our creative energy.
Continue reading →What Tiger Woods can teach us about achieving goals.
Continue reading →On creation feeling more like surrender than accomplishment.
Continue reading →An exercise in breaking through my inability to embrace my desire to create.
Continue reading →On using constraints to unlock hyper-creativity.
Continue reading →On learning to embrace and seek discomfort.
Continue reading →On worrying less.
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