The Best Time of Day to Make Decisions, Uncovered
In the old days, when choices were limited and personal freedoms had yet to become a battle cry of the first world, making decisions might
In the old days, when choices were limited and personal freedoms had yet to become a battle cry of the first world, making decisions might
Can you name the cultures who value quiet the most? Clue: It’s not Western culture. In fact, it’s Asian and Nordic cultures that emphasize silence
Saying we’re sorry is a confusing experience, but we’re presented the rules like they’re simple and immutable: If you hurt someone, say you’re sorry. If
There’s a parenting cheat code we don’t often talk about… We don’t always have to bear the burden of coming up with consequences. Natural consequences
Kids of the world have had a rough couple of years. Anything that hasn’t been outright canceled has been hybridized – something that’s difficult for everyone,
Is negative three an option? Actually, it is. It’s harder to plan for a baby these days – even before the pandemic. Those in baby-having age
Who hears their mother’s voice in their head when your kid is melting down? Does it ever say anything like… “You would NEVER have gotten
And make no mistake – if you have any money at all, you are a money manager. Those of us not ranked among the financial 1%
Right now, you’re stuck in a financial paradigm. Paradigms are cognitive frameworks. They’re the belief systems in which you function. Paradigms can be grand, sweeping
The FOMO of watching your friends make a killing on bitcoin… Or discussing multiple streams of passive dividend income… Or hearing whispered secrets about the
In the old days, when choices were limited and personal freedoms had yet to become a battle cry of the first world, making decisions might
Can you name the cultures who value quiet the most? Clue: It’s not Western culture. In fact, it’s Asian and Nordic cultures that emphasize silence
Saying we’re sorry is a confusing experience, but we’re presented the rules like they’re simple and immutable: If you hurt someone, say you’re sorry. If
There’s a parenting cheat code we don’t often talk about… We don’t always have to bear the burden of coming up with consequences. Natural consequences
Kids of the world have had a rough couple of years. Anything that hasn’t been outright canceled has been hybridized – something that’s difficult for everyone,
Is negative three an option? Actually, it is. It’s harder to plan for a baby these days – even before the pandemic. Those in baby-having age
Who hears their mother’s voice in their head when your kid is melting down? Does it ever say anything like… “You would NEVER have gotten
And make no mistake – if you have any money at all, you are a money manager. Those of us not ranked among the financial 1%
Right now, you’re stuck in a financial paradigm. Paradigms are cognitive frameworks. They’re the belief systems in which you function. Paradigms can be grand, sweeping
The FOMO of watching your friends make a killing on bitcoin… Or discussing multiple streams of passive dividend income… Or hearing whispered secrets about the
Sylvia Plath was not a scientist.
But surprisingly, she wasn’t wrong when she said…
“I’m sure there are things that can’t be cured by a good bath, but I can’t think of one.”
Bubble baths have gotten a lot of media attention in the last few years as the self-care movement picked up speed. We’ve talked before about the difference between self-care and self-soothing, and although they are both perfectly valid and necessary…
Leonard Cohen managed to condense what is actually quite a complex and riveting Biblical tale into a few timeless lines: Now, I heard there was
Is your refrigerator running?
Well… then you’d better catch on to the contribution you’re making to a convergence of global crises brought on by the greed and improvidence of two major industries poisoning the population, advancing climate change, benefiting from systemic poverty, destroying the soil, invading politics, and generally making a muck of what used to be our simplest need: food.
Our issues with the way we eat scale all the way to the top of the food chain… but they start in your refrigerator.
The more we’ve moved humanity indoors, automated our skills away, and gotten our experience of the world filtered and sent to us through screens…
The more we’ve lost touch with some of the vital skills cavemen and prehistoric men learned in order to survive.
We’re only able to tell an automated device to play a song by a famous dead artist, or microwave a burrito, or fly to a different time zone on a moment’s notice, because our ancestors developed the essential skills that were necessary to beat the odds and survive.
As Robert Frost so eloquently put it many years ago, “nothing gold can stay.” True as it was in Frost’s poem – ”So Eden sank to