questforameaningfullife

I’ve talked about how one decade can be like a life. One year can be like a new life. And we can really see our lives as being full of so much variety and potential for change, new situations, new ways of looking at the world, that we really don’t need to project out one […]

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

Maybe the simplest and most certain and confident thing that we can say about life and the universe is that things are happening. Something’s happening. Things are going on. And so there it is, my theory of the universe: things are happening. And that may be the most certain thing we can say. But you’re

Well, we can’t get away from the basic truth that things are always changing. Sure, some things remain the same, and this change is very limited. It’s within certain patterns, and it’s not just every day is completely different and complete chaos. But at the same time, we have something new with every day. Something

Here I am, a guy sitting in his living room, talking about life. And I don’t have any professional qualifications. I don’t have any professional entertaining skills. I just have a perspective that I feel like sharing, just for anybody who might want to listen, might be interested in these topics, and might find value

Subtractive happiness. Once again it comes back to the topic of happiness, what it means to be happy, content, satisfied, pleased. The feeling that life is good, happy to live my life. We all want this feeling. And sometimes it feels like it’s a chase after happiness. It’s a hunt. We feel good sometimes, and