Writing
I post new articles as I write them. I focus on quality rather than frequency. These are the archives of everything I’ve written since 2014.
- March 18, 2022
Always something
- October 1, 2021
Max Shank and the 5-Minute Movement Flow
- April 30, 2021
Less but better
- April 27, 2021
The elusive secret sauce
- April 19, 2020
Sh*tty First Drafts
- April 19, 2020
Travels in China
- March 29, 2020
34 Years of Change
- March 22, 2020
A Letter to my Friends in This Time of Trouble
- March 15, 2020
The Joys of a Home Gym
- March 8, 2020
Flow = Happiness?
- March 3, 2020
How to Solve Hard Problems
- February 27, 2020
So I’m Thinking of Retiring…
- February 17, 2020
8 Great Reasons Not to Count Calories
- February 9, 2020
Sh*t Happens
- February 2, 2020
Habit Tracking: A Simple Way to Change Your Life
- January 26, 2020
The Good and Bad of Full-Time Remote Work
- January 19, 2020
My First Week With Habit Tracking
- January 12, 2020
I Got Stranded in Roanoke Rapids—and Learned a Valuable Life Lesson
- January 5, 2020
Courage and Nausea
- December 29, 2019
Don’t Drink the Water—It’s a Cesspool
- December 22, 2019
Highlights of 2019, and Looking Toward the New Decade
- December 15, 2019
A Place of One’s Own
- December 8, 2019
Your Best Habit Strategy Depends on Your Motivation Level
- December 5, 2019
The Value of Telling the Truth
- December 1, 2019
Things I loved this week: December 1, 2019 edition
- November 24, 2019
Support the work you love!
- November 24, 2019
Things I loved this week: November 24, 2019 edition
- November 17, 2019
Keep Going→
- November 11, 2019
What does it mean to be an ethical software company?
- November 3, 2019
Should you get up really freakin’ early? 😴🤷🏻♂️
- November 3, 2019
Things I Loved This Week (11-3-2019 edition)
- October 27, 2019
We’re not machines
- October 20, 2019
Tilting at Big Tech
- October 9, 2019
How to Craft a Perennial Seller
- October 5, 2019
Support Your Local Dream
- September 21, 2019
Ultralearning, for Fun and Profit
- August 23, 2019
I Ditched My Enlightenment Complex and Became Ordinary Again
- July 18, 2019
Hungry For a Change
- May 12, 2019
The Wisdom of Anxiety
- May 11, 2019
Where Is It All Leading?
- May 10, 2019
Baby the Machine
- May 9, 2019
Calories vs. Food
- May 9, 2019
Forget Personality Types and Be Yourself
- May 5, 2019
Is It Possible to Lose Fat Without Losing Your Mind?
- April 15, 2019
An End and a Beginning
- July 29, 2018
What Are You Looking For?
- July 23, 2018
The Freedom of No Escape
- July 17, 2018
3 Ways to Keep Anxiety from Ruining Your Productivity
- July 13, 2018
How to Go Vegan in 6 Short Years
- July 9, 2018
Drop Your Burdens and Rest in the Flow of Life
- July 6, 2018
Encounters With a Measuring Cup: A Meditation on Thought and Reality
- June 30, 2018
How to Make Peace with Tiredness, Pain and Irritability (Without Going Crazy)
- June 25, 2018
How to Make Success Inevitable
- June 22, 2018
Four Things Every Artist Must Do to Fail at Their Career
- June 20, 2018
The Fog of Thought
- June 10, 2018
Drop the Struggle
- June 9, 2018
The Valley of Perfectionism
- May 31, 2018
Two Months of Daily Writing
- May 24, 2018
Writing For Likes
- May 19, 2018
My Denial of Death
- May 10, 2018
The Books That Shaped Me
- May 5, 2018
The Best Oatmeal Ever
- May 4, 2018
I’ve Been Losing Weight for Over a Decade. I’m Still Not Done Yet.
- April 30, 2018
The Piteous Death of Attention
- March 18, 2017
A Quiet Morning Just Sitting
- October 22, 2016
Living a Good Life
- August 12, 2014
Intermittent Fasting: Week 1 Update and New Outlook
- August 5, 2014
Intermittent Fasting: Day 1
- August 4, 2014
30-Day Trial: Intermittent Fasting
- August 2, 2014
How I Lost 130 Pounds and Counting: Training
- July 31, 2014
How I Lost 130 Pounds and Counting: Nutrition
- July 27, 2014
Keeping Your Word
- July 19, 2014
Thriving in the Funk
- July 9, 2014
Prepare for Success
- February 5, 2014
What is passion?