My iPad Picked My Pocket 7 Aug 2013 | 10:16 pm

It's a cliche family moment: My wife opens the credit-card bill and screams when she sees the iTunes charges. Over a thousand freaking dollars. Instantly, a family meeting is convened to hang the gu....

Video: Edward Snowden Explains Why He Decided to Blow the Whistle on CIA Surveillance Of Innocent Citizens 10 Jun 2013 | 07:34 pm

The Not So Easy Path To An Extraordinary Life 5 Jun 2013 | 08:38 pm

A friend of mine asked me to write the forward to his book, The Leap Year Project. He's been kind enough to let me post it here. There are two kinds of days that make up our lives. Those days of big ...

3 Powerful Lessons With Craig Newmark 31 May 2013 | 07:23 pm

For those under the age of 30, it’s hard to imagine there was ever time when there was no Craiglist - a time when selling a car required shelling out money to buy an ad in a local newspaper. Yet it i...

Scratch What Makes You Itch 24 May 2013 | 07:33 pm

Everyone I know who continues to do what they love has had to say "forget it" to the money at least once. If you do anything long enough you may have to say it more than once. The funny thing about al...

New App Makes It Simple To Be Sure Nobody Died Making Your T-shirt. 19 May 2013 | 11:21 pm

The collapse and fire in that Cambodian factory last week makes me feel like I'm stuck in some sort of unending loop. Like we're all somehow doomed to play out the same scenario over and over like in ...

Marine Real Estate Boom 23 Apr 2013 | 09:49 pm

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Tiny Toxic Litter 19 Apr 2013 | 12:17 am

We humans are prone to odd behaviors. But there are few as absurd as flicking cigarette butts onto the ground, right where we live, work and play. What the butt? Fact is, cigarette butts aren't dispo...

Start A Beautiful New Week With Alan Watts 1 Apr 2013 | 08:27 pm

Thanks to Jake Sullivan for bringing this Alan Watts video to our attention. 

Who Else But Coke Could Have Figured Out The Obesity Problem? 29 Mar 2013 | 01:16 am

The chairs did it. It makes such perfect sense, but it has been so hard to see. We are all suddenly sitting too much because chairs are everywhere. And it's obviously some sort of chair conspiracy to ...