Intangible Benefits (Why Success Isn’t Always Obvious)
Last November, I decided to sign-up for Scrawny to Brawny, a year-long coaching program for anyone wanting to gain weight and change their physique. Fast forward ten months later, I’ve gained a total...
View ArticlePUSH: A Fitness Tracker That Measures Power and Strength
Fitness trackers have come a long way in the past several years, and they’re only going to continue to improve. PUSH, a new tracker about to hit the market for purchase, is promising to measure things...
View ArticleFour Pieces of Training Advice That Work
When I was working 6-8 hours straight with clients, I thought I was doing well. I had a pretty high resign rate meaning that well over half of my clients were continuing to work with me month after...
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What A Workout Does to Your Brain
This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. I distinctly remember the sunrises during my senior year of high school. While my classmates were sleeping, I was on the roads racking up miles with my...
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The Benefits of Doing Nothing (and Why You Should Do It More Often)
One might assume that Isaac Newton was hard at work in his laboratory when he stumbled upon gravity. Such a monumental discovery surely occurred in a room where he was surrounded by books, diagrams,...
View ArticleUsing Constraints to Make Better Decisions (Like Walking Away From $2 Million)
Could you walk away from $2 million? How hard of a decision do you think that would be? If you’re Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, the decision is apparently easy. “Of course!” you might say. Stone...
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The Power of Posture & How to Improve It
This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. When you read the title of this post, you likely sat up a bit taller or pulled your shoulders back just a bit. As much as we tend to ignore posture...
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How to Force Yourself to Improve
Gary Cohn owes his first job on Wall Street to a cab ride1. Cohn was twenty-two and working as a salesman for U.S. Steel in Cleveland. On one particular day, he found himself in Long Island and decided...
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How to Improve Your Reading Retention on Any Device
This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. Last Tuesday, after running errands, sitting in traffic, and finishing a normal work day–I still had time to read for nearly 2 hours and 45 minutes. In...
View ArticleDefine Success on Your Own Terms
That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau You...
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How to Become More Creative
This post was previously published on the Crew blog. How many uses can you think of for a paperclip in three minutes? If you’re average, you’ll probably be able to drum up 10 or perhaps 20 different...
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How to Make Better Decisions Based on Science
2+2= Unless you’re a cyborg, you couldn’t help but think of the number “4″ when you saw the above expression. In the same way, the partial phrase “bread and” leaves you with the word “butter” on the...
View ArticleReading List – Summer 2014
Awhile back, I made a commitment to read more books throughout the year. Many of the books I’ve read since making that commitment have formed the basis of articles that I’ve written. They are the prime...
View ArticleCreativity and Memory
I loved Maria Popova’s breakdown of why creative work hinges on memory here, particularly, this part about Mozart: Mozart, she notes, called this his “bag of memories” — a mental reservoir of...
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Title: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (Affiliate link) Author: Maria Konnikova Published: December 31, 2013 I picked up Maria’s book after reading nearly every column she’s written for...
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iPhone Camera Evolution
A terrific breakdown of how the iPhone camera has evolved over time: Every time I do this comparison, I am amazed at how far the iPhone camera technology has come. It has transformed the way we...
View ArticleLiving a Meaningful Life
James Clear on living a meaningful life: There are people who make each day a work of art by the way they do their work. There are unsung teachers who shift the minds of children, garbage men who keep...
View ArticleCome Alive
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman (via)
View ArticleMajoring in the Minor
If you’ve stumbled across the blog over the past few days, you’ve seen an absolute nightmare. I’ve changed the site design more than five times over the course of the past week. I just couldn’t make up...
View ArticleNever Lose That Feeling
When I was interviewing for the Happiness Engineer job at Automattic (almost a year ago!), the trial lead (the full-timer conducting my interview) asked why I wanted to work in the Happiness Engineer...
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