My wife and I recently welcomed our first child into this world, Thomas. It seems my next ultralearning challenge is going to be learning how to be a dad! I’m sure there will be plenty of life lessons from fatherhood that will make its way into my writing in the future. I’m planning on taking […]
How Important is Work?
How important should work be in your life? What kind of relationship should you have with your career? If you don’t feel like you have that, what should you do about it? I’m usually against overthinking wants and likes. Consider cilantro. Some people (like me) think it’s delicious. Others think it tastes like soap. No […]
Information Overload is a Fake Problem
The internet reachable by Google has over a million terabytes of data. Every minute 300 hours of new video is added to YouTube. In the time it took to read this sentence, at least 10,000 new tweets have appeared on Twitter. We’re drowning in information, so it’s only natural to feel overwhelmed. Right? I was […]
Seven Habits that Seem Lazy (but Actually Let You Get More Done)
In 1850, French economist Claude-Frédéric Bastiat published his famous essay, “Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas” or, “What is seen and what is unseen.” In it, he argues against the “bad economist” who looks only to the initial effect of actions taken, and not their further consequences. Bastiat uses the example of […]