November 2020

It’s an ancient observation that while time is clearly the most valuable resource we have by far, much more valuable than money, we don’t tend to treat it that way, and we tend to throw it away much more easily than we would ever throw away our money. So I imagine, what would it be […]

The spirit of a hacker. Now, there are many different uses of this word. The idea of being somebody who is skilled at breaking into computer systems or technological systems. Somebody who can figure out the arcane details and find some way to make a system do what it was not intended to do. And

For most of us living in cities working indoors, we spend so much of our lives inside, inside a box of walls, ceiling, and floor, and underneath the glow of electric lights, such that we don’t even need to actually care about what’s going on outside. And yet, there just seems to be this special

I think one thing that got in the way for me when trying to be more disciplined, more motivated, get things done, overcome my bad habits, and really plug into my own life and actually work at living a good life instead of escaping: it’s that I had this separation between work and fun. […]

Last week I talked about this idea of needing a reason for things. That if something happens and it just appears to be random and meaningless, it’s like there’s a hole there. There’s something missing, it seems, that we can then choose to fill. We feel this hunger to fill the meaning gap, to give