In a world of fast answers, fast food and fast shipping, I enjoy a peculiar delight when sleuthing around in a fat hard back dictionary for definitions. Damn it’s slow. I haven’t yet measured the efficiency lost by standing up, walking to the dictionary, picking it up, leafing to the…

Rewind the clock 7 years, and we’d find me as an impassioned 23 year old rock climber. In retrospect, I see that I hoped climbing would be the way to find both myself and meaning (turns out, it wasn’t). …

Have you ever flown a kite without a string? Are you now thinking, that’s the dumbest question you’ve read all week? Kites need string just as pizza needs dough. We can learn a life lesson from the simple pleasure of flying a kite. …

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.” — Goethe I have a confession. For many years I secretly harbored jealousy towards artisans, builders and tinkerers. You know them — the creative dreamers who casually recount: “As…

A years-long search for the perfect morning has meant pieces of paper with different iterations of “boot-up sequences” on the kitchen counter or in the bathroom exhorting me to comply with a sequence of “optimizing” tasks. Call me lazy, undisciplined or otherwise a slacker because these lists honestly never stuck. …

Conscious or unconscious, we make a statement with each and every action. Hence, the macro is in the micro — how we do small things impacts how we do big things. So, what’s that got to do with digital kitchen timers? For me, a lot… I use timers throughout the…