Category: Lifestyle design
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How do I deal with the state of technology and culture now that I understand the neuroscience behind it?
I am still really struggling with this information, what to do with it and how to not just be a crazy crackpot retreating from society. If you’ve been following my posts lately, you’ve seen me talk a bit about themes of manipulation and the neuroscience of arousal and anxiety. The neuroscience knowledge underpinning these ideas…
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Update on my Facebook presence
I thought that I had already posted this, but just to TikTok I guess. Here’s the video link: I’m gonna summarize this as briefly as I can, though off the cuff because I didn’t think to prepare a post before cell service. For years, one of the core struggles in my mental health has been…
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Just kind of a general long-overdue update
It’s been a while! How embarrassing, it looks like my last post here was as I was wrapping up my first van life experiment, almost two years ago. And it really wasn’t fair of me to ghost the page because there really was a lot going on over that time. I never really recapped the…
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Update and reboot: Some discussion on happiness research
I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I’m going to resist the temptation to update you on all the developments of the last two years. Instead, I’m going to focus on the findings of my research. As most of you know, my main drive in life is happiness, and I’ve spent the last…
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Update: Who’s Ready and other happenings
Every time I come to update this site I’m disappointed in myself for how far behind I’ve fallen. So this post might be a bit of a belated catch-up. Who’s Ready My major new project for 2019 is a new social networking app called Who’s Ready. I’ve got a whole web site set up about…
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Birthday in Yosemite
What a long strange trip it’s been! Some of you may have heard of GoRuck. They make backpacks, and to sell more backpacks they invented the sport of “rucking” and started hosting “GoRuck challenge” events in various cities. So they’re known among the adventure/obstacle racing circles and have been on my radar for years. Their…
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Business travel essentials, part one: Packing
The frequent flyer’s handbook part one: The business trip packing list. One part of my work that I really enjoy is traveling to cover cases all over the country. This is usually a service I perform as a contractor for other attorneys when their clients move to a different area, but I sometimes encounter the…
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Lifestyle design
So I’ve dropped this phrase “lifestyle design” on this site a few times and it’s been a while since I explained it, at least concisely, if at all. Lifestyle design is a phrase I stole from Timothy Ferriss’s book “The Four-hour Work Week.” It refers to the idea of taking charge of your complete life…
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Called myself out in a bar
2017 10 10 I’m sitting in a bar in Palm Beach where I just had a conversation with a lovely young woman who claimed to be a writer but admitted she had no real reason not to be committing to her writing except she’s afraid to take the plunge. I told her about what I’d…
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My Last Swim
It’s been one week since my last swim. One of my favorite podcasts is In Between Swims. If you read this blog, you should subscribe to that podcast. The host, Jeff McIntyre, interviews boaters and asks them to tell about their last swim. If he ever asks me, this is the story I want…
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2015 and 2016
In 2015 I had 20 personal first descents including a dozen new class 4 rivers or discrete sections and eight or nine proper waterfalls, depending on what you count. It’s been a phenomenal year for my whitewater life. It’s also the first year in which I had a solid and consistent roll. My paddling has…
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LWC prototype trip, day 2
Okay, so it looks like I’m going to need an alarm clock after all. The car sleeping setup is a success in that it’s super comfy, but a fail in that it made it a little too easy to sleep in. Today hasn’t exemplified productivity; finding good work environments remains a work in progress. Really,…
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Life without Compromise: Day 1
20151116 Today has been Day 1 of my “life without compromise prototype trip.” Let me go back a step. I’ve been reshaping my life in accordance with a principle called “Life Without Compromise,” which I’ve been learning from Eric Jackson. I could go on about LWC for a while, but suffice for now to say…