Welcome to Quest for a Meaningful Life in the park, down here by the Toronto waterfront, and today I’m thinking about what it means to think about time as if it’s space. If we think about the home that we live in, you can imagine a mental picture of what your house or apartment or […]

Permanent daylight savings time. […] I find it very symbolic of the way that we interact with nature. […] Someone had a clever idea that we could actually pretend that the time is different than what it is. We could actually just change the clocks, completely arbitrarily. The sun isn’t changing. Still doing the same

When it comes to meaningful life, finding meaning in life, one of the themes that keeps coming back is this idea of connecting to something bigger, plugging into something that is bigger than ourselves and our everyday lives. And so this could be, of course, family, community, some sense of humanity, being plugged into some

Welcome to Quest for a Meaningful Life on the road here in Quebec City where I’ll be spending the winter, trying out this whole work from anywhere experience. Now that the lockdown of so much of organic real life has led to this opening up of working online, this idea of doing business through a

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWnk3uR4SXk One of my videos that got the most responses is about being in a mental hole. This feeling that there’s nothing to look forward to in life, I’m just in a hole. And my point that I was trying to make was that there’s always something outside the hole. When you’re in

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller. Bucky. One of the most interesting characters of the 20th century. A futurist in the real sense of the term, really imagining different possible futures. The inventor who came up with

Travel has always been something closely connected with the search for meaning, having a meaningful life, wanting to experience more life. There’s always this sense that there’s more out there, that by moving myself to some new place, I can experience some new dimension of life, maybe even find some deeper meaning in life. And

Well, it’s now been two years of making these videos. First year, it was a video every day. Second year, it was a video every week. And now I think it’s time to move down to a video every month. Because basically, I am running out of things to say without repeating myself. So when

Any talk about simplicity or minimalism can’t get away from the time dimension, because that’s the dimension that really counts. More than having open space in your living room, it’s having open time in your calendar, in your life, time to do the things that you really want to do, rather than having time be

We’re constantly under attack, you could say. Our minds are being fished. We’re like fish, that the bait’s coming out at us, the hooks are coming out at us. Everybody, it seems, is trying to affect how we think. We have advertising telling us what we should want, what we really want if we just