I run a small business and we use a lot of different vendors for a variety of products and services. But last week we had a run-in with one of our vendors that could have been avoided very simply. This is a company you’ve certainly heard of and have probably even used. Essentially I needed to cancel …
Pure. Ground. Black. Pepper….It’s black gold. Not really. But prices are up. With global demand for pepper increasing, especially as China and the Far East consume more pepper (and meat to put it on), the wholesale price of pepper is up about 40% from the year ending in July of 2015 and up 310% over …
Evolution is cosmic creativity. You know, they are the same thing. Creativity is like evolution in your hands. This is why creativity is such a great practice. You’re always in the now. You always have to focus on what you’re doing… [to] try to let go of everything. It’s a great way to meditate… as you’re …
Everyone has their movie theater story. The woman who talked through the entire movie three rows behind you. The teenager texting on his bright screen. The kid who threw up. My favorite personal experience involved those children’s shoes with the LEDs in them – the ones that light up red every time you take a …
My girlfriend and I like to have a lot of control over what we eat. We also like to cook. For the first year we dated, I would cook steaks and veggies for dinner a few times a week and we’d eat out or order Sprig the rest of the time. But we found it really difficult …
I recently finished Cal Newport’s Deep Work and was impressed by his thesis: 1) deep work matters – especially in a world where most knowledge workers are really struggling with distracting, low-impact, shallow work – and 2) you can build the habits that facilitate deep work with a little planning, time, and discipline. Have you ever …
What follows are the section headers from the first book of Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art. It’s a fantastic read about Resistance. Resistance is what keeps us from sitting down and doing work. And as the Dalai Lama says, and Pressfield quotes: “The enemy is a very good teacher.” So it’s only fitting that the …
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, …
I’m mildly obsessed with evolution. I think it’s because the theory of evolution so elegantly describes our very complex biological world. Evolution is a driving force behind so much of what happens around us, not to mention our continued march as a species. But my mini-obsession didn’t stem from my college Genetics class or trying …
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If you’re interested in other applications of evolution and natural selection outside of the genetic and biological worlds, listen to this interview between Matt Ridley and Russ Roberts. In this conversation, Ridley briefly discusses the emergent properties of society, culture, our economy, language, law, morality (and religion’s role in it’s development), and the invention and commercialization …
