I write for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists.
Whenever I manage to wake up at 5 AM, I find myself immensely grateful for those extra morning hours. There s magic in being awake when no one else is. You feel as if you have all the time in the world and, in a sense, you do—for the world is still asleep, and you re off [ ]
Herbert s parents once ate takeout for an anniversary dinner. The mindset stuck with him, and he struggles to spend money even when it s an obvious life improvement or small investment to fix something necessary. Maladaptive frugality, he calls it. Herbert shared the idea on his blog and posted it to Hacker News. There, it sparked [ ]
My favorite Pokémon cards to collect are those belonging to so-called subsets. These are mini collections within, or sometimes across, the larger, official sets released by The Pokémon Company every two months or so. Sometimes, these sets are deliberate, for example with a designated rarity. At other times, Pokémon just throws in a bunch of [ ]
We can rarely identify it as it happens. Usually, it takes hindsight to point and say: That s when it happened. After that, I was a different person. For 25 years of my life, Howard Shore s iconic theme of the Shire in Lord of the Rings was just a song to me. A nice, familiar song, [ ]
The main plot point of Devil May Cry, a hack-n-slash video game series revolving around demon hunter Dante, is revenge. The king of the underworld, Mundus, killed both of Dante s parents, one to see through his plan of conquering the human realm, the other to enslave Dante s brother Vergil as his ally. That s a lot [ ]
When s the last time you did that on purpose? For me, it was years—until yesterday. I sat on my sunbed in the garden, working. It was mid-afternoon, and I got tired. I closed the laptop and laid down. I shut my eyes and listened to the environment. When I opened them, whoa! There they were. [ ]
After day one of our annual company get-together, I already had a lot of feedback. The food was not as nice as the year before. The sessions were more work-focused, which was good, but the event now lacked the human element altogether. There weren t enough breaks to digest information, let alone meaningfully recover in some [ ]
Yesterday, I sent off a big Pokémon card order, then closed all tabs. I wanted to hit pause on my collection for a few months to better focus on writing. There s always another card to chase, another set coming out, but, most of the time, you don t miss too much if you lie dormant for [ ]
Don t you have one? Perhaps it s just me with my overly digital lifestyle. Often, the moments I appreciate the most go back to nature and the natural. Stepping outside into my garden. Touching grass, touching my tree. Turning paper pages in a real book. It s nice that, while reading The Lord of the Rings, I [ ]
My goal is to write this daily blog in 15 minutes. Every morning, I start a timer and try to finish before it rings. Sometimes, the fight is lost before it begins. Today, I was looking for Star Wars music. I got sidetracked into a movie trailer, then a fellow author s latest income report. By [ ]