This post was originally published in 2014 and has been updated in 2022. Enjoy! You don’t need more books about exercise and fitness. And I doubt you need more advice, tips, gurus, or videos on how to “gain muscle in just 10 minutes a day.” Don’t worry—that’s not what...
It’s funny how we’re so good at getting what we want today and so bad at planning for what we need tomorrow. We happily drive our crew-cab pick-up truck back and forth to work while our bike sits rusting in the garage. We gaily spend money on new clothes and big...
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” Dalai Lama Sometimes I just want the damn Porsche. This week I was in Toronto speaking about how I built my speaking business. The room was full of consultants, speakers, authors, and...
"Twixt the optimist and pessimist The difference is droll The optimist sees the doughnut But the pessimist sees the hole." McLandburgh Wilson, 1915 My day was planned. Every hour so clearly designed it would make a pencil-toting engineer proud. Yessir, today was going...
This article was originally published in June 2015 and has been re-loved and republished just for you. Every once in a while you come across a solution that is so elegant and seamless to use that you simply love it. That's what it was like 10 years ago when I switched...
When Bogotá’s newly minted mayor, Antanas Mockus, took office he had a lot of problems. One of which was traffic. In a city of 8 million, where a large majority of the population walk to work and to shops, pedestrian accidents were at an all-time high. True to his...
When I was a young river guide I drank coffee like water. The blacker the better; the more the better. It was how I got jacked up for another morning hauling around obscenely heavy equipment, stayed awake on long drives to the river and fuelled all-nighters around the...