How often do you stop and think about your thoughts? I don’t mean thinking and analyzing one thought or another but thinking about just how many thoughts you …
Musical Taste
Why do we like the music that we do? Why do I like one style and dislike another, while you may feel the exact opposite? I listen to …
Attachment and Suffering
When the Buddha stated that life is suffering, I doubt he meant suffering in the way we understand it today. This suffering, caused by attachment, would be better …
Showing Up
There are so many productivity hacks these days. Focus apps, website blockers, to-do lists, second brains, task blocks… They’re all designed to either make us more productive or …
The Curse of Cooking
I’m a cook. It was my first real job, first significant education after high school, and first real career. And while I’ve long since left the professional kitchen, …
Electric Scapegoats
We underwent an incredible cold snap over the last few days, with temperatures dipping into the -40’s. At one point on Saturday night, the provincial government sent out …
My Favourite Books of 2023
Essentialism – Greg McKeown Recommended by a friend, Essentialism drives home the point of focusing only on what matters. We’re faced with countless options on how to spend …
Peace of Mind
The other morning my wife found a small puddle of oil under her car. She had her oil changed the previous afternoon. The assumption was that the technicians …
Looking Back at 2023
What happened to the last three years? It seems like only a few months ago I was sipping coffee in the Colombian Andes, planning a return to Oaxaca …