5 Simple Ways To Complicate Your Life
Life complicates through overthinking, saying yes to everything, comparing constantly, perfectionism, neglecting health. Simplicity requires [...]
Building addTaskManager, the best iOS productivity app for ADHD minds
Life complicates through overthinking, saying yes to everything, comparing constantly, perfectionism, neglecting health. Simplicity requires [...]
Blog readers seek solutions, connection, entertainment, inspiration, validation. Different audiences want different things—knowing yours determines [...]
Banana taped to wall sold for $120k. Art world absurdity or commentary on value? The [...]
New Year resolutions fail because timing is arbitrary. Motivation from calendar date doesn't sustain. Real [...]
Burnout signs—exhaustion, cynicism, inefficacy, detachment, physical symptoms. Common cause—sustained mismatch between effort and meaning
Proximity bias—nearby seems more valuable than distant. Time, space, relationships all affected. Remote creates different [...]
Development update—staying steady to original vision despite feature creep temptations. Simplicity is harder than complexity
Meditation debugs consciousness like programmers debug spaghetti code. Find bugs, trace origins, refactor thinking. Mind [...]
Self-deception runs automatically. The art—catching lies before believing them. Most damaging beliefs are self-authored
First ultra-marathon complete. Body broken, mind expanded. The aftermath teaches more than race—recovery reveals what [...]
addTaskManager pivot from complex to simple. Original vision missed market. The turn—radical simplification toward core [...]
Pujas are Hindu rituals. Software patching fixes bugs. Both work through systematic attention to small [...]
Buddhism for programmers series launch. Translating ancient wisdom into developer language. Version control for consciousness
Decade of blogging lessons—consistency beats quality, audience builds slowly, authenticity attracts, monetization is hard, writing [...]
Spain remote work realities—visa requirements, tax implications, cost of living, connectivity quality. Paradise with paperwork
Facts are verifiable. News is selected facts. Opinions are interpretations. Most people confuse all three—the [...]
Fiction writing challenges different muscles than blogging. Creating worlds versus documenting reality. New book project [...]
Happy tourist bias—seeing destinations through vacation lens. Everything looks better temporarily. The bias actually improves [...]
DNA storage for blockchain—biological hard drives storing immutable data. Science fiction becoming science fact. The [...]
There is no intrinsic value of anything. The value that we attach to things, situations, [...]
Everyone performs roles. Social media amplified performance until authenticity became rarest commodity. We're all actors [...]
Interaction exists on spectrum from transactional to transformational. Most stay transactional. Deep connection requires moving [...]
Coffee shop work optimization—headphones, portable charger, off-peak hours, small purchases, bathroom proximity. Remote work manual [...]
Money is collective hallucination. Paper has no value—only shared belief does. The illusion works until [...]
Fallas in Valencia—burning giant sculptures, deafening explosions. Loud noises purify through overwhelming sensory input. Catharsis [...]
Essential nomad tools—laptop, VPN, backup drive, unlocked phone, power adapter, portable WiFi. Hardware determines location [...]
Revolut, TransferWise, Wirex compared—foreign exchange fees, ATM limits, crypto integration, card availability. Banking for borderless [...]
Financial discipline through tracking spending, automating savings, cash envelopes, 24-hour rule, meal planning, buying used, [...]
Brexit as auto-immune disorder—body attacking itself believing foreign threat. Nation harming itself through misidentified danger
Goal obsession creates anxiety. Breaking up with productivity culture means accepting flow over force. Being [...]