A Recruiting Pitch for a Hard Life
“Hard choices, easy life,” but who actually wants easy? The better bet is the hard hard choice: a quest that tests what you're made of.
Happy System, Happy Life
Apply systems theory to life design by understanding what your system does, then aligning around it.
Confessions of a Reformed Identity Nudist
Identities, even baggy and unscientific ones, can be beneficial so long as you know what they're covering up.
Make Self-Help Feel Useless
Everyone has a fight that makes self-help books collect dust. You just need to know what to look for.
Monetize the Verb
You don't have to choose between passion and pragmatism. You just need to stop chasing nouns and start monetizing your verb.
Unpackage Your Passion
I thought I was a writer. I was wrong. Are you stuffing your verb into the wrong noun, too?
I’m Scared School Will “Socialize” My Kids
It took 12 years to unlearn the 'supposed-to' path that conventional school taught me. Now I'm supposed to send my kid into the same system?
“What Do You Do?” Is a Fabulous Question
Anyone who has a problem with asking or being asked "What do you do?" is contributing to a bigger problem.
Actually Useful Personal User Manuals
My argument for creating your own personal user manual for better decisions, marriages, and more! Plus my example manual.
The GOAT Life
In a theater of a million yous who've lived a million lives, which one gets the loudest ovation?
Your Purpose Is Not for Hanging Laundry (Plug It In)
How extraordinary things start happening when you finally figure out how to plug your purpose into real life.