I’ve had a few recent email conversations about the subject of passion. We usually agree that passion is important, people have initial interests that guide them towards a passion and that passions develop over time. However, then I bring up what I believe is an equally important point: society needs to recognize, reward and value […]
Reader Meet-Up in Paris?
This upcoming Saturday (March 13th) will be my last day in Paris, before I head back to the south of France. Considering there are a number of readers close to Paris, I thought it would be nice to have a meet-up for anyone interested. If you’d like to meet, please send me an email. I’m […]
Should You Wander the World or Build a Home?
I’m taking a break from my normal, opinionated rants to pose a question: should your twenties be devoted to wandering the world, living in many places, but never deeply? Or should they be spent picking a place to live and investing your time to build a home from that place? I’ll share my thoughts on […]
Is the Ideal Lifestyle Designed or Earned?
Since Tim Ferriss coined the term, “lifestyle design” has become a phenomenon. A Google search for the term brings up nearly 83 million web pages. And the term has helped keep Ferriss’s book on the best seller list for over two years. The most important impact of the ideavirus has been to start the conversation […]
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