This is the story of why I gave up a corporate job with total compensation pushing into the six figures so I could pursue my passions. It’s raw, it’s unfiltered, and details the glorious risk and uncertainty that comes with doing something you absolutely need to do (with a lot of help along the way).
It’s a question that never has a good answer. Well here is an answer for you, complete with specific steps you can take to help yourself get off the hamster wheel and leave the rat race.
Celebrating the monumentally uneventful 1st year of blogging by Joel Zaslofsky (and a few things you can learn from it).
Introducing: The Annoyance Challenge. Please don’t use excessive paper towels and your sprinkler system the day after it rained all night!
What do 80s TV commercials and 90s cartoon theme songs have to do with powerful learning and memory tools? Repeat after me: everything.
This is the raw confessional of the biggest risk I ever took and why I’m a better man for being a terrible person.
The world is at war with food. At every step in the chain where food in planted, grown, harvested, stored, transported, purchased and eaten, we waste HUGE amounts of it. We can do better and we need to do better.
All rankings are not created equal. So maybe you shouldn’t always trust the bias of them without exploring what the variables and biases actually are.
Rachel Botsman has said “”I don’t want stuff, I want the means or experiences it fulfills”. This will help if you use Craigslist, Ebay, or have even a passing interest in collaborative consumption.
You like good sleep and reclaiming one week of your life back every year with little effort? Then read how to deal with the snooze button (or better yet, do away with it completely).
The original post of Enlightened Resource Management, which became Value of Simple. This is a terrible post and you shouldn’t read it.