I’ve been doing my best to keep a good journal as we travel. To give a little insight into our daily life at the moment, I thought I’d post a journal entry from today: After an oatmeal+flavored honey+greek yogurt-for-breakfast-fail, we headed out to the...
I should have seen it coming. For months now, I’ve experienced a pain in the bottom of my left foot in some of the most epic cities in the world. Prague, Budapest, Paris, Rome…was it “epic city syndrome”? No, its something called plantar...
You may believe that you will be happy when you are successful, but the truth is that you will be successful when you are happy. Adopt the following habits (from 10:38 in the talk): 3 Gratitudes Journaling Exercise Meditation Random Acts of...
Lately I’ve felt inspired, yet again, to create my own websites and work on my own personal projects. This time, the inspiration came in the form of several articles related to eCommerce. I’d like to share them with you and comment on a few reasons they...
For some odd reason, the people who make Google Chrome forgot to make it easy to remove the Chrome notifications icon from your Mac OSX menu bar. Here’s how to remove the Google Chrome notification icon: Open your Google Chrome browser, and in the address field,...
In a book called The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferris, Tim applies Pareto Principle (also known as the “80/20 rule”) to gaining conversational proficiency in speaking and understanding a language. He states the following: 95% proficiency with conversational Spanish = 2,500...
Matthew chapter 5 is the “Sermon on the Mount” chapter. It begins with an interesting phrase: “And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain”. First read: Jesus was with a lot of people, so he decided to go up a little higher so he...
Today in a Milan metro station, I saw two people approach the bottom of an escalator and step on the “activation pad”, but the escalator didn’t start. Aparently it was broken. No “chiuso” sign (italian for “closed”), and no...
I haven’t been all that into Bitcoin. In fact, I had signed off on Bitcoin and dismissed it as something that would fade into irrelevance. I’ve since changed my tune, quite recently actually, and am now intrigued by Bitcoin – particularly its...
