I have always liked food: I enjoy cooking, I like eating, and I especially value sharing mealtimes together with family and loved ones. I also enjoy snacking, and I like going out to
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The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and quality will naturally follow.
The following story, from Art & Fear by David Bayles and
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The other day I happened across a pair of Lululemon shorts on Facebook marketplace. They were beautiful, they were my size, and they were a deal: only $35! I wanted to buy them. I left the tab open for a while, then I closed it.
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When I was a boy, I had a ride-on lawnmower with no blades. I’d wanted a ride-on lawnmower for years, ever since my brothers and I found and restored-to-life a John Deere
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Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting.
I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it.
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Days, it turns out, are rather easily made.
The time required varies, but trends closer to making the bed, or making a cup of tea, than to making Ravioli. (If you are crazy
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Conferences can be hit-and-miss. It’s easy to go through the motions on autopilot and find the experience lacklustre. Earlier on this summer, I attended one that started out lacklustre, but then became
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This morning I got stuck in the slow lane behind an old man when I was walking down the sidewalk on my way to a Zoom meeting at my neighbourhood coffee shop. Rather
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If you’ve ever splattered your face, shirt, counter, and ceiling with coffee and grounds when trying to operate an Aeropress coffee maker, this is how to prevent it.
Blowouts happen when it
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No matter our position or situation, life will throw challenges our way. These can either knock us off our stride and make us sulk, or be an opportunity to grow.
Depending on my
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Reality is detailed, and attention is finite. As I get older, I find myself noticing less. I think this is partly because adults are socialized not to stare, and to pretend like they
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At the risk of stating the obvious even more obviously than I usually do: sometimes the perfect approach involves tolerating imperfection.
Imperfection?! Yes. Specifically, the more macroscopic one’s view becomes, the more
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I play the violin. I started when I was about six, but didn’t get serious until I was nine, when my parents gave me a new instrument as a birthday gift that
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[ Inspired by the strangely-hilarious meme-essay The Grug Brained Developer ]
grug brained writer write million million words and sell about two. grug scratch head to figure why two words become shiny rocks and not
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Because it contains details of my medical history, this is a members-only post. If you have a seasonal rash and the cost of membership is a financial hardship, please contact me so I
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I propose a new standard for the blogosphere, along the lines of Derek Sivers’s “Now” page: the Things I don’t know how to do list.
Criteria:
1. Maintain a more or
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I have tried several methods of learning Spanish that didn’t work:
* Spanish in 30 days (book & CD combo)
* Duolingo
* Memorizing vocabulary with Anki
* Listening to Language Transfer Complete Spanish
* Listening to
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