The Minimalists

There are many ways to learn. Many methods, many ways to acquire new skills, many teachers from whom we can gain knowledge…

Every habit has its trigger. Most of the time we don’t know our triggers, though, and much of the time we unconsciously trigger bad habits…

It’s been four months since we moved to our mountainside cabin in Montana. After spending 120 days doing the Thoreau-with-WiFi thing, we’re leaving our remote cabin for a new journey…

Every moth is drawn to light, even when that light is a flame…

I had this friend in high school whose parents had all these strict rules that seemed crazy to me as a teenager…

Human beings do the strangest things…

You were not meant to do any one thing for the rest of your life…

Every whole person has dreams and desires. Many of us believe that achiving these dreams will bring us satisfaction or fulfillment or contentment…

I am not a Stoic, but I like to conduct stoical experiments from time to time…

As far as I can tell, there are no magical writing secrets. There is no magic wand, no set of tricks, no way to flip a switch to instantly create better stories with your keyboard…

A pound of experiences weighs much more than a pound of stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I still buy things. But most of the things I purchase aren’t “things” in the traditional sense…

Take a look at your day-to-day life: through the hustle and bustle of your daily grind, what banal, tedious, mundane tasks eat up most of your time?

We are clearly in the throes of the holiday-shopping season…

Everyone complains about what they did and didn’t get for Christmas…

Some rules are not meant to be broken. Some are. Many rules are pliable: they can be bent and manipulated and shaped to produce a desired outcome. The beautiful and terrifying job for the writer is that he or she must…