Category: Thoughts

Last week was kinda slow, but I enjoyed a nice dinner with Jeremy and Chris at Texas de Brazil. Having wine with that dinner prompted me to open the bottle of Carmenere my friend Ivan from Chile brought over.

Derek Low wrote about his experience flying the best class available on a standard airline. What It’s Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class

I spent the past couple weeks in Australia. On the way there I scheduled a 12 hour layover in LA so I could spend a day with my good friend Matt Goldberg. We didn’t do much, just talked, ate, and drank, but it was an enjoyable day. We were hoping to meet up with Courtney,…

Jamila Lyiscott presented 3 Ways to Speak English as a TED Talk.

The second event in Australia was in Adelaide, which apparently is the city of churches. It was a very pretty city and seemed rather peaceful. On the way home I saw the moving city known as an A380 for the first time.

I spent a week hanging out in Melbourne. We walked through a forest, went to a wildlife conservatory, looked at the city from the top of a mountain, visited the tallest building in Australia, and found a brothel for sale, among other things.

I went to Melbourne and visited AASCF’s Victoria State championship. I also toured around downtown Melbourne.

USA Today published Think Airline Seats Have Gotten Smaller? They Have, explaining changes that make us closer to our neighbors when flying.

CNN published ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 fun facts as the film turns 20, celebrating one of my favorite movies.  

Stella Young presented I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much as a TED Talk.

On the way to Australia I swung by Los Angeles for a day and hung out with Matt.

Ramit Sethi published Uh, it’s SUPPOSED to be Hard!, about finding a reason something can be done instead of many why it can’t. It’s SUPPOSED to be hard to start a successful business or create world-class art or be famous. And to be blunt, if you can’t figure out how, you don’t deserve to play…

I lived another uneventful weekend of using the Egg. Then I went to Nashville for a mid-week meeting and was taken to the Grand Ole Opry. Next week I take a much further trip. On a different note, I found my last 2 cameras.

The past week was pretty uneventful. I watched alot of football, wrote the beginning to several articles, and spent some time working on my judging schedule for the season. The football was greatly missed and I really enjoyed having an easy weekend watching several games. The writing is incomplete now, but will eventually show up…

Dan Gilbert presented The Psychology of Your Future Self as a TED Talk.

I met up with Omar, Christian, Ramie, and Robin in Chattanooga for Brew Fest and Elza for a day on the boat. I also met Sarah for lunch on the way there and Jeff on the way back. In between we ate alot, learned choreography to Sister Act 2, talked about cheerleading, and did nothing…

For the most part I had another pretty uneventful week. Given the amount of travel and activity I’ve had so far this year it’s been nice to have back to back weekends at home with just about nothing required of me, unless you count watching Pepper while Chris was out of town or bringing back…

Kevin Briggs presented The Bridge Between Suicide and Life as a TED Talk.

I didn’t travel last weekend so I was very lazy and didn’t take many pictures. I finally finished another book and celebrated Scott’s birthday.

Business Insider published Why Everyone Should Purposely Sit In The Wrong Seat On An Airplane At Least Once, about Noah Kagan’s Stranger Challenge, which is to do something random with a stranger, and Coffee Challenge, described below. “We have a thing called the Coffee Challenge,” Kagan tells James Altucher in a recent podcast. “You have…

My latest book was The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton. It was an interesting read, but I don’t think I can accurately describe it. It takes a look at some traits that are common in psychopaths and points out where they show up in other parts of society, ranging from spies to monks. I’m…

This is old, but it came up in the car on the way from LA to Costa Mesa last week. I Found Ice Cube’s  ‘Good Day’