Japan. A country deeply rooted in tradition, respect, awareness of one’s self around others, and an inner-appreciation for helping people. A country that, despite it’s own shortcomings, stands out for its differences in cultural norms when compared to our own.
Norms that become so apparent—almost tactile—when I return to the United States after…
Dear Rally,
I hope you’re not upset with me that I started writing this letter in my head a little more than 3 weeks ago. When we found out your kidneys were failing, I knew we still had some time together. I wanted to start thinking about our life together,…
The Roman leader and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius famously said, The measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
As I look back on my third year of intentionally tracking life’s ups and downs, I stop to reflect on how well I’m doing as a man….
I’ve been thinking a lot about this mindset lately. Mostly because I’ve been there before, friends and family have been there before, and someone nearby is probably “there” right now. Actually, you can be certain someone close to you is.
This year I’ve thought more about how we choose to extend ourselves and…
I’m often asked what cyclocross is, and to that I typically say something like: CX means knobby tires on a road bike, moving riders around a long course filled with grass, rocks, dirt, sand, and various obstacles to run or jump over. It’s a circuit race that starts at the blow…
A five part series written for remote professionals who want to take their life and careers to a new level. This is the final part in the series.
Being a remote worker brings with it quite a lot of responsibility. Both to your employer, but also to yourself. And yet…
A five part series written for remote professionals who want to take their life and careers to a new level. This is Part Four in the series.
For many of us in the digital design and development fields, we didn’t plan our futures around the notion that we’d have to be…
It was the latter half of the 90s, and for the first time in my life I was the new kid in school. We’d moved to Virginia only a few months prior and my summer was spent mostly doing teenage things: playing guitar, listening to music, tinkering on my first iMac, and working…
A five part series written for remote professionals who want to take their life and careers to a new level. This is Part Three in the series.
This summer I took my fiancée on a bike loop from the town of Golden, Colorado, south through Red Rocks, and eventually east over…
A five part series written for remote professionals who want to take their life and careers to a new level. This is Part Two in the series.
Having not visited the grocery store in a week, my cabinets seemed a little bare this morning. Knowing my lunch was going to be…