If my writings have helped you, the best thing you can do is to pay it forward by walking the talk or spreading the word. If you really want to do something directly, writing a review of the blog here would be much appreciated. Also, you can vote for me in the 2009 Plutus [...]

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Modern man has an endless fascination with productivity. There is always something that could be done faster or more effective. Productivity is not a natural state though. You do not see an animal trying to be more productive. It simply does its thing, takes what it needs and no more. Not humans, they always [...]

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After suggesting it yesterday evening, we decided to go sailing today.
Why not? There’s no worrying about crossover points, 401ks, or so-called passive income, or about how to be awesome or extreme or productive or whatever, or about resumes, how to kick ass, keep up, or how to tread water in quicksand and figure out how [...]

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Yesterday I went sailing with M_, D_, and M_ on his Olson 40. It kinda looked like this video (same type of boat, same area, not as fast, different people).
We sailed into the SF bay passing through a race with sailboats coming on our port (left) side with spinnakers (big balloon like sails) set. M_ [...]

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One change in the relationship dynamics came from the fact that prior to my retirement, I was earning 2-3 times as much as DW (everything included) and yet we had decided that when we got married (2006) we would split our income. I did not mind so much at the time, but now that DW [...]

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Last year, a year before a retired from my career, I listed the schedule of a typical day. Looking back, it is interesting how organized my life was back then with practically every day looking the same.
Since it was/is an entertaining read, I have been thinking about doing a similar article so that I [...]

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One of the things that wasn’t very satisfying to me when I was a salaried employee—I tend to think of it as a retainer—was the tremendous amounts of inefficiency resulting from the difference between manufacturing a creative work and doing assembly line work. Assembly line has a reasonable good correlation between time spent working and [...]

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Whoa! You may remember me with grand plans about writing 3 instructionals a day to reach 1000 in a year. Well, to say the least after after three weeks of doing so and making $0.10 in total, that was sufficiently demotivating to send me off on a break not to mention the fact that contrary [...]

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I need to fix a metal futon frame. It will require something better than duct tape and superglue. Any ideas? It needs to be “simple”, that is, not require a $500 welding machine to fix what is probably a $50 frame. Solder and blowtorch?

As you can see from the fuzzy picture, the thin wire [...]

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Beyond a certain minimum absolute, the most important point of is one’s perception of _relative_ performance. This comes into play in many ways.
For instance, 20 miles on a bicycle in 90F may seem like a deathride. Yet this is only the case if 20 miles or 90F is the limit of peak performance. If [...]

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