May 2013
“It’s not enough to consider your mind a blank slate. You have to...”
– Paul Graham, in Lies We Tell Kids (highly recommended)
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
– John Keats’ epitaph for himself
best of craigslist: Boxes - Premium quality.... →
To make you smile today, please read this.
A Helpful Guide to Becoming Unbusy | Becoming... →
Can you do it?
Micropriorities - Tynan →
Good list!
WatchTHIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The Glossary)
“I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably...”
– This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williams
“Long story short, while many aspects of the paleo diet are uncontroversial and...”
– Is the Popular ‘Paleo Diet’ a Bunch of Baloney? | Alternet
“Domestic violence research has yet to pinpoint a definite predictor of why one...”
– Escape
April 2013
“What part of “shorn’t” don’t you understand?”
– Michael Scott
10 Little-Known Apps That Entrepreneurs Can’t Live... →
Great list. I’m included.
Here is Today →
Pretty cool.
Simplifying Healthy Eating: An Interview with Leo... →
A fun interview with me and No Meat Athlete on healthy eating and my new vegan challenge.
Minimalism: Addition not Subtraction. →
Exactly right.
Why New Habits Rarely Stick - Interview with Leo... →
A video interview with me by Jasmin Terrany.
Hugging a Lion: How to Embrace Technology Without... →
Important topic!
Fearful Focus: How & When to Kill Your 2nd Most... →
Really good reminder.
“So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just...”
– Patton Oswald (in a post on the Boston Marathon tragedy)
The Habit Course: Create Your Life, One Habit at a... →
My habit course with Katie Tallo and Barrie Davenport, now with a $97 option.
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it... →
What I’ve believed in, and have been practicing, for at least 7 years now.
we used to sleep twice each night →
Artificial light has changed the way we sleep.
Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities,... →
Fascinating.
Plant-Powered 15 ebook →
Excellent vegan recipes (also gluten- and oil-free) from one of the best vegan cookbook authors.
Practical Action-Oriented Contentment With Leo... →
I’ll be teaching a class on this topic, for charity.
Yes, Healthful Fast Food Is Possible. But Edible?... →
There might be hope for humanity.
Tea with Leo Babauta and Jesse Jacobs | It's all... →
March 2013
Jack Norris RD: Dr. Oz on Soy →
Soy scares again, not based on any evidence.
“When everyone else is trying to automate everything, using a little human...”
– Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage | Derek Sivers
Priceonomics Blog: Diamonds Are Bullshit →
We’ve been tricked into buying diamonds.
Touching the Earth Sit-a-Thon - San Francisco Zen... →
Join the Zen Center virtually, and help them raise money by sitting!
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
– Mike Murdock
Why not welcoming impermanence is causing you... →
Good read.
Ask The Tea Master: Samovar vs Teavana | Samovar... →
Smackdown.
“Paleofantasy”: Stone Age delusions - Salon.com →
Good read.
Fitocracy Knowledge Center →
Good new blog.
Why I like DST →
I agree.
Sharecropping: A Sucker’s Game Then — and Now →
Digital sharecropping — when you post content to Facebook or other sites owned by other companies.
The 17 Weirdest Things I Do Now That I’m Vegan →
Pretty funny.
Life Without Goals (Part II): De-cluttering Your... →
Interesting to follow Jen’s experiment.
“Vegans’ (greenhouse gas) emissions were 41.7% lower than the non-vegetarians,...”
– Environmental footprint of vegan diets 41.7% lower, say researchers 