Category: Life Advice
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Food: The Hidden Force That Shaped Human History
We were hunter-gatherers for most of our existence. If the entire history of Homo sapiens were compressed into one hour, agriculture would have appeared only about 3–4 minutes ago. In other words, the way we live today is extremely recent when measured against the span of human existence. Agriculture began roughly 10,000–12,000 years ago and…
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Simplify, Simplify! How Less Can Lead to More
In 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden, a book written after his experiment of living simply in a small cabin near Walden Pond. More than 170 years later, his words still feel remarkably relevant. “Our life is frittered away by detail,” he wrote, before offering his famous advice: “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” He was arguing that…
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The School Bench We Never Had
In 7th grade, we were asked to bring our own mat. Every Wednesday, benches used to come out. It was a celebration when we got to use the benches instead of sitting on the floor. Most of us were not used to such luxury. So, naturally, we ruined it. We would draw lines to partition…
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Things You Should Quit for a Quieter Life
Noise makes life complicated. Internal noise, digital noise, external noise. It eats up so much of your brain’s capacity that you tend not to realize when you have stopped having time for the important things you care about. People generally complain that they do not have time. It is because they are preoccupied with adhering…
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You Can Find Time If You Want To
“I didn’t have time.” It’s probably one of the most common excuses we hear—and one of the strangest. If you pause and think about it, time wasn’t taken away from us. Every one of us gets the same twenty-four hours. What we usually mean is something else: “I didn’t prioritize it.” That sentence is less…
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The Last Job AI Can’t Take
A few decades ago, the world sped up and we were happy to run. The dot-com years pulled us online, and it felt like progress — faster work, faster money, faster everything. We didn’t mind. We chose it. But the speed never settled. It only compounded. Now AI is accelerating life faster than we can…
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The Stories We Live By
It matters what story you tell yourself. That story eventually becomes a fundamental truth—a philosophy for your life. It gives you a reason, and maybe even a meaning, to live. I call it a story because no one truly knows the truth. Philosophers, scientists, religious thinkers, and rulers have spent centuries trying to understand reality.…
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Finding Mojo back
More than a decade ago, I read a book called Mojo. The book was about finding your mojo back—finding your inspiration, energy, or perhaps even yourself again. At the time, I did not understand the premise. How could someone lose their mojo in the first place? I felt completely connected to who I was. The…
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Hope Is Underrated
We hit the gym because we hope to feel better. We brush our teeth because we hope to smell better. We take a bath because we hope to feel fresh. These don’t feel like hope because they almost always work. But they are still hope—just backed by strong evidence. When hope repeats enough times, we…
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Seattle to vegas roadtrip
We completed our third major road trip in the United States. Roughly 2,600 miles, 6 states, temperatures ranging from 40°F to 110°F, and our longest single-day drive touching nearly 850 miles. It was a combination of mountain towns, isolated highways, state parks, deserts, and cities — though the center of the trip was clearly Las…
