The Minimalists

Pencils have erasers for a reason. To err is human, and therefore one of the most important skills we can develop is…

For many years I associated with people based on convenience…

There’s a serpentine line snaked out the door at the Department of Motor Vehicles…

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?