Lifestyle Design

My System for Increasing Productivity (Taught to Me By a Psychologist and Grad School Professor)

This month, I’m focusing on increasing productivity. (I polled readers here for my 10×10 monthly challenge, and productivity was the winner–let me know if you have any suggestions for future months) Back in grad school, a friend and I were on the verge of a nervous breakdown at the thought of doing a thesis while more

The Two Types of Businesses (The Benefiting from Bangkok Manifesto)

I went to architecture school, where pretty much everyone talks about Robert Venturi who is a dude that co-wrote a manifesto called Learning from Las Vegas. In Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi argues that there are two types of buildings: Ducks and Decorated Sheds. Now, I’m not here to comment on architectural theory. This post more

The Most Important Decision You Need to Make About Your Business

Danger! Cliche Alert – This blog post contains references to Anthony Robbins and Napoleon Hill. So, I’ve been noticing a few things lately. There’s really one key decision that you have to make about your online business that will really determine whether or not you’re going to succeed. If you chose to approach it from more

The Myth of the Awesome Blogger

From my observation, there seems to be two distinct kinds of marketers on the internet today. I’m going to talk about one of them in this post. For the sake of this post, I will refer to them as the Awesome Bloggers. Awesome Bloggers are people who get into this game because they, like many more

The Pursuit of a Meaning-Filled Life

Okay. I admit it. I snuck into the World Domination Summit last weekend. Chris Guillebeau, if you read this, I’m sorry. But, hey, it’s not like my presence was taking anything away from bona fide attendees. Besides, you guys also had a lot of meetings out in that public park outside where lurking degenerates, like more