Sometimes I wonder if people think I am crazy. I mean come on, get a real job, have kids, move to the suburbs. Quit it with your ‘web development business’ and dating young Argenhots. I have heard on multiple occasions from ex-girlfriends that I have ‘commitment issues’… Au contraire amigos! Stability is one of the [...]
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Changing Perspectives
I am an American expat that on a whim picked up and moved to Argentina. Before I came here I worked for a 100,000+ person company, worked an average of 50 hour weeks for 8+ years, drove a Mercedes, and had a secure life ahead of me. I had good friends, a great girlfriend, and [...]
Ask People Out – Make the World a Better Place
So I’ve been in Buenos Aires for about 5 months now and I totally love living here. As they say here ‘me encanta’ – I’m enchanted. One of the reasons why is that there are just so many damn cool expats here. (I need more Argie friends…). I would say that I have the most [...]
Taking Initiative vs Playing the Blame Game
Recently I have read three great business books that have helped me further refine my business and life philosphies. As I’ve said before, reading is just so damn powerful. The books are Ready, Fire, Aim (Masterson), Getting Things Done (Allen), and The Seven Habits of Higly Effective People (Covey). The one thing that these books [...]
The Fallacy of Tools
With the ever increasing speed of technical innovation comes a constant barrage of new tools available to us all. This is especially true for software techies, who have this positive feedback loop (Flywheel) of an ever-increasing community of available tools. In many ways this is a good thing, but (like all things) it is important [...]
Double your Reading Speed in 10 Minutes, Seriously
Reading Time: 3 minutes On a plane somewhere over Brazil I was reading ‘The Blind Watchmaker’ by Richard Dawkins. I was about 300 pages in, and pretty much understood the point. With 100 pages left I was seriously considering moving on to my next book. Instead of giving up I decided on testing a speed [...]
2 Months of Health: A Lifestyle Experiment
I have decided to undergo a lifestyle experiment over the next two months. I want to get in the best shape of my life. To do this I will need to be disciplined and steady. Because I have the tendency to let big plans like this drop, I enlisted some help. My personal trainer, Adrian, [...]
Avoiding Nightmares with Action
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable action. -John F Kennedy It was 4:00AM and I woke up sweating and terrified. The paper on Sartre that was due a month ago was still not completed. Every day I thought [...]
Learning and Overcoming Fears through Action
Great video by my man Tim Ferriss on learning and breaking down fears.
Blog Update in Progress
Hello readers – as you may be able to tell I am currently undergoing a major renovation of this blog which is causing some of the formatting to be messed up. It has also led to the loss of all video content. I’m working to resolve this – so please bear with me. Thanks! Withers
