Value – The Driving Force in Friendships & Relationships
Its useful to question the relationships in your life, and ask what the value exchange is. Value can be created in different ways, and its not all financial. Perhaps you have a friend who’s reliable and helps you out in tough situations....
How To Hedge Long Term Plans With Long Term Strategies
We don’t know what the future holds Think of your early childhood aspirations. Maybe you wanted to visit space, practice a profession or pursue a sport. Whatever you thought of when you were little, chances are, life has deviated from that early vision....
An Evening With Homeless Guys in San Francisco
Arriving into a new town, you often just go with the flow. So after a week in San Francisco, some friends suggested we join ‘SantaCon’. Dressed up in our best Santa gear, we hit the bars. Briefly, it was pretty...
Defining Life Purpose
How I intend to impact or contribute to the world, during my life, is a question I think about a lot. And likely will continue to do so… This is the rationale that I have come up with thus far. We are...
Being Socially Aware & Why It’s Important (Analysis)
Isn’t it wonderful being around people who are socially aware. Those who read social signals, and adapt their interactions based upon them. For example, when someone’s talking to you, and they become aware you “don’t give a fuck”, and they...
Type While You Walk – Combining Head Up Displays & Input Gloves
It would be great for the human race, to have a way to record thoughts as text, whilst moving. This would help us in the “battle” against sedentary lifestyles. The two best methods we have at the moment are: Smartphones… we need...
Reflecting on 15 Months of Travel
Last year I sold my car, donned a 40 litre backpack and took a one way flight to Bangkok. The morning of arrival I was sitting on a tiny plastic chair, at the side of the street, eating rice porridge watching monks...
The Velcro Theory of Memory – Or Why Radically New Info Takes Longer To Learn
Have you ever decided to learn something new, something outside of your comfort zone, and found yourself frustrated at your slow speed of learning? You’re usually quick at picking up things, but the new subject area just doesn’t sink in as...
On the benefits of NOT checking your phone/email first thing in the morning
There are a lot of great life hacks out there. But frankly, the best life hack is the one that most applies to your life at the time. Actually that applies to advice in general – timing is everything. But I’m going...
Making Decisions: A Technique For Making Them Faster
I’ve never been a fast decision maker. My natural tendency was to weigh up all the options before diving in. Whilst this is great in some situations, in many others it’s slow and time consuming. You might call it a...