Beyond enough
Helpful questions for untangling fulfillment and money
Continue reading →Life
Be in one place at once
The difference between presence and splitness
Continue reading →Cultivate outcomes
The power of initial conditions
Continue reading →The longer path is the faster path
Why straight lines are slower than we think
Continue reading →On being early
Why being early is more difficult than it seems
Continue reading →Intelligence = Error Correction
A minimalist definition of intelligence
Continue reading →The secret to patience
On having fun and being unbeatable
Continue reading →Gradually, then suddenly
A framework for max uncertainty
Continue reading →On fleetingness
On the pricelessness of temporary things
Continue reading →Allegory is the way
On reading spiritual texts allegorically rather than literally
Continue reading →We are made of eternity
On death, evolution, and eternity
Continue reading →What’s your life aesthetic?
On designing each facet of our lives with intention
Continue reading →Pull your joy forward
On creating space now for the things that bring us fulfillment
Continue reading →Why I’m reading fewer books
On finding the balance between input and output
Continue reading →Study your discontent
On using discontent to improve wellbeing
Continue reading →Everything is raw material
On choosing what to make from the materials we’ve been given
Continue reading →Truth has a shelf life
On seeing truth through the lens of time and evolution
Continue reading →Success: An alternate definition
On identifying our unique recipe for living that maximizes fulfillment
Continue reading →What type of God do you believe in?
On the universe’s essential nature and its posture towards us
Continue reading →Hunters and diggers
On understanding how we’re wired
Continue reading →Get comfortable living in the gray
On the relationship between rebellion and freedom
Continue reading →Be like a Roomba
On using action to figure out what to do next
Continue reading →Slipping through the cracks
On reducing my reliance on list keeping to help put first things first
Continue reading →Fortunate > Blessed
On expressing gratitude while embracing randomness
Continue reading →Be an archeologist
On discovering who we are by stripping away all that we aren’t
Continue reading →The details are your life
The big things are made up of the small things
Continue reading →Philosophy isn’t one-size-fits-all
On judging philosophy by the quality of life it creates
Continue reading →Lessons from Japan
On beauty, craft, self awareness, and community
Continue reading →You are here
On moving from the fringe to the middle
Continue reading →Fate as probability
On the relationship between circumstance and choice of response
Continue reading →Eden is a metaphor
On balancing advancing consciousness and connection with the natural world
Continue reading →Find your likes by eliminating your dislikes
On using a process of elimination to find your passion
Continue reading →Living is so much more interesting than dying
On living more fully here and now
Continue reading →Nobody is self-made
On leveraging our circumstances for growth
Continue reading →Celebrate today
On appreciating the wonder we’re a part of
Continue reading →Serendipity
On reconnecting with the fun that drew you into creative work
Continue reading →Fulfillment is a posture to circumstance, not a product of it
On the unique and personal nature of fulfillment
Continue reading →Why I’m a perfectionist
On the costs and difficulty of achieving upward mobility
Continue reading →Everything compounds
On emergent phenomena and why it’s the engine of the universe
Continue reading →Fullness, emptiness, free will, and fate
On the spectral nature of fate and fullness
Continue reading →Waterfalls and filmstrips
On the fluid nature of our beings
Continue reading →How I got better at golf while playing less
On achieving better performance with less effort
Continue reading →Play the long game
On patient accumulation, asymmetric bets, and winning Monopoly
Continue reading →Why political systems disintegrate
On why societies fail when they leave too many people behind
Continue reading →We need integrative philosophy
On assembling a mosaic of methods for defining the many layers of reality
Continue reading →The age of integration
On our need to merge science and mysticism
Continue reading →This is all there is
On why the action is here, and always will be
Continue reading →Debt is reversible
On the power of simple-yet-tough decisions repeated consistently over time
Continue reading →The art of controlling (almost) nothing
On identifying what we can control and releasing ourselves from the rest
Continue reading →Regulation and taxes (A positive perspective)
On the relationship between population density, regulations, and taxes.
Continue reading →Set your alarm the same time every day
On seeking health, fulfillment, and joy daily
Continue reading →The afterlife lets us off the hook
On just how fleeting our time together in this life really is
Continue reading →There’s a person behind every product
On the importance of considering the people behind the things we buy
Continue reading →Be where you’re from
On the costs of relocating your home base
Continue reading →Beggars and billionaires
On what we seek when we travel
Continue reading →The reward for a life well lived, is a life well lived
On the fleetingness of life and the benefits of not believing in an afterlife
Continue reading →Join a cat for sunrise
A lesson about reconnecting with the now
Continue reading →How to get unstuck
A mental model for generating change
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A fresh thought about homelessness in San Francisco
Making sense of the growing homeless population and it’s relationship to the amount of support that’s available to them
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4 keys to fostering contagious generosity
On the primal elements that unlock our innate desire to be generous
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Choose both
On the importance of seeking to resolve seemingly contradictory truths
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How Yosemite turned my life upside down
On the importance of seeking out new perspectives and experiences
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There’s no such thing as luck
On learning to experiment and embrace failure as integral ingredients to success
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Make money while you sleep
On the power of decoupling our time from our income
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What will you do?
On why we can’t be free until we know why we want to be free
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Talking about work is not work
On the danger of talking away our creative energy
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Focus on habits
What Tiger Woods can teach us about achieving goals
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Why we find things after we stop looking for them
On worrying less
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