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The Magician’s Travel Kitchen: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Local and Cheap...

One thing I find difficult about traveling is food. I lose a lot of control over what I eat which makes it hard for me to eat healthy and gluten-free. I lose a lot of control over when I eat too which...

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John Ruskin on What it Means to Be Wealthy

This post is part of the Fragments of Wisdom series: a collection of thoughts and stories on life worth contemplating. Ruskin was an art critic in the 19th century and an early proponent of...

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Ezra Bayda on the 5 Aspects of Meditation as a Transformative Process

This post is part of the Fragments of Wisdom series: a collection of thoughts and stories on life worth contemplating. Zen often de-emphasizes an intellectual understanding of the meditation process...

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How to Save Money Fast: 10 Habits That Funded My Travels

If you’ve been following along on the blog you know I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking and writing about money in my Making of a Money Mindset Series. I’ve put together a quick cheat sheet with...

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The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and the Wisdom of Greedy Caterpillars

The second law of thermodynamics states that although energy cannot be created or destroyed,1 it can be transformed from one form to another. Your car uses the second law of thermodynamics to transform...

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Tim Wu on Reclaiming Our Consciousness [Fragments of Wisdom]

This post is part of the Fragments of Wisdom series: a collection of thoughts on living I’ve found worth contemplating. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less...

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The Path to Interesting: 6 Steps for Following Your Intuition

I’ve noticed a set of habits that’s led me to increasingly interesting places in my life. It amounts to something of a practical breakdown of what it means to me to follow my intuition. I’ve listed it...

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3 Ways I’m Grateful

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I thought I’d share how I practice gratitude in my life. I’ve tried a few different things over the years, this is what I do right now. In total, these habits only take...

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Telling Better Stories

Recently I was reflecting on my day with my partner, Julie-Roxane. Here were the highlights: In the morning we went into town and did some shopping. Then we worked for a while. In the afternoon we had...

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Why I Blog

Recently I was asked a few questions about blogging by a reader. I thought others might find the Q&A interesting. Here they are: How long have you been blogging? Two years. Why did you start...

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Culture Shock

It’s been three months since I touched down in Paris after a year living in Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. I’ve tried to write about that day several times—how vast the artificial sky underneath the...

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My Most Influential Reads and Listens from 2017

One of my favorite things to do on the internet is read other people’s book lists. I love being reminded how many interesting things there are yet to explore, to get lost in and inspired by. I revere...

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2017 in Review

For me, last year was a devastating one as an American but in many other areas of my life it was the best year on record. It feels scary to say that, like I should keep it a secret because maybe I’m...

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The Art of Creative Waiting

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. -Zen proverb I’m fascinated by the psychological aspect of myth and the multifaceted ways they can serve as a compass in...

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Creating a Ritual

This year, my partner Julie-Roxane and I created our own New Year’s ritual. It’s attracted a lot of interest so I want to share what we did and our thinking behind it. Why Create a Ritual? Back in high...

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Feeling the FUD

A few days ago I paddled out for the second time at Arrifana beach in Portugal. It was a fairly big day for me: double overhead (which in non-surfer lingo means waves twice my height.) After sitting on...

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Ezra Bayda on 31 Reasons to Meditate [Fragments of Wisdom]

This post is part of my Fragments of Wisdom series: a collection of thoughts on living from different authors I come across. Recently I started reading a line of Ezra Bayda’s “31 Flavors of Meditation”...

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My Relationship with Coffee as a Highly Sensitive INTJ

I spend a lot of time thinking about my relationship with caffeine, which has been a complicated one (to put it mildly). I’m not sure if being an INTJ1 has a direct relationship to caffeine and coffee...

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Calling Bullshit

I recently flew to France and bought a used caravan which I’m in the process of renovating. I’ll save my thinking around why I’m doing that for another post but the short of it is living simply out in...

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9 Lessons from my Travels

I’ve been taking some time off from the blog the past couple months to be with friends and family in California. Recently I attended my brother’s wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony in the woods in...

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