Improving Your Time Perspective
My over-arching personal-development theme for 2015 is “Mastery of Time.” It comes from a few inspirations, most particularly the definition of luxury promoted by Tim Ferriss: Luxury is feeling...
View ArticlePracticing Maker Time
The Hypothesis: As I’ve mentioned a while back, 2015 is a year where my over-arching focus is intended to be a complete abandoning of any “time-management” techniques. That is to say: I don’t want to...
View ArticleThe Maker-Time Schedule
This would be one of those “public accountability” posts, or maybe just a “notice of an experimental life hack.” As you may remember, a while back I tried out the concept of “Maker Time” – with some...
View ArticleThe Maker Schedule Update
A while back I announced an attempt at changing around my schedule. Specifically I was hoping to take advantage of the idea of “Maker Time”, a focused block of time without breaks when I would work on...
View ArticleThe Poverty of Time
In his groundbreaking work on the psychological implications of poverty, Sendhil Mullainathan found evidence that many lawmakers and social critics were mixing up cause and effect. Namely, it wasn’t...
View ArticleTime, My Ally
This post is interactive. You’re going to have to click to read it. Don’t worry about the countdown. It’s not a big deal, I promise. In fact, all it will do is take you to a version of this post that...
View ArticlePracticing Slack
There's another key concept from the Scarcity book I'm listening to that is the second “game changer” in terms of how I look at the overall concept of meeting needs. It's the idea of slack. The first...
View ArticleThree Productivity-Producing Products
I talk a lot about various things I try out, and I don’t always follow up on how they work out. However, there are three things that I’ve been using that have really made a significant difference in...
View ArticleThe Harsh Realities of Time and Space
A while back I talked about wanting to focus on mastering time. That’s as opposed to (as we call it) managing time. Trying to make our time “stretch” by chopping it into precise and smaller segments...
View ArticlePracticing Time Off
I hope you all (well, all U.S. readers, anyway) had a lovely Labor Day weekend! I certainly did, visiting a friend in Chicago and eating some delicious food and reveling in not working. This post is...
View ArticleAvoid Burnout by Living Deliberately
Traveling at the Speed of Life Take care not to smoke too quickly; for the…
View ArticleRitual is Easy; Routine is Hard
In Search of the Mundane Today while listening to The Simple Life Together podcast, I…
View Articlemaking room for what you want to love
Scene: A Dark Parking Lot in the South of Madison “Why are you giving me…
View Articleloving yourself from the future
I Love Myself. Well, let me be more specific: I love the me I used…
View Articlelearning to wait
“WHAT DO WE WANT?” “PATIENCE!” “WHEN DO WE WANT IT?” “NOW!” As lovely as our…
View ArticleHow to Be a Time Lord
A while back I decided to shift my focus from “time management” to “time ownership.”…
View ArticleThe Love of the Author for the Writer
It’s really an imbalanced thing, the love the author has for the writer. “Author” is…
View ArticleSpread Yourself Thick
My friend Michele Serchuk, a New York photographer, was talking with me about a new…
View ArticleThis is the End
It’s the common refrain this time of year. Every year, really, but this year, more than any in my memory, feels mores. In some ways, it’s big picture stuff – the end of democracy, maybe? In other ways...
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