We evolved to spread our genes in a harsh environment. But what happens when we don’t live in a harsh environment? Or aren’t interested in spreading our genes?
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Many things we do that seem “irrational” or “self-sabotaging” are perfectly rational — depending on what you mean by rational.
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Why it’s better to work for eight focused, high-energy hours than twelve distracted, low-energy ones, and how to do so.
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You almost never find outright falsehoods in the health space — but a lot of information is outdated, decontextualized or overblown information that has been modified for its ability to sell and be repeated. Here’s how to figure out what’s worthless and what works.
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If you can’t get yourself to do something, why not pretend to be a different person for a while?
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A first stab at adapting David Allen’s Getting Things Done to full-time business travel.
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Some meta-advice about different kinds of advice and when it’s appropriate and ethical for experts to give them.
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Weight is an at-best misleading and at-worst useless measurement for virtually everything we try and use it for. This article covers why, and what to measure instead.
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A short note about what work travel is and — more critically — is not.
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Defining terms and asking good questions to yourself and others is important, and worth being pedantic about, because better questions lead us to better answers.
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