The science on burnout
I burned out so completely building my last startup that hitting full-eject from my work, partnership and home seemed like the only sane action. After finding peace of mind again, I became curious about the experience because I had witnessed versions of it in my career but never really understood
Bali Cheat Sheet
I've been in Bali for almost a year now and have privately shared the notes below with friends planning their visits. About 80% of Bali's economy is tied to tourism, which was devastated during the pandemic. The island has now reopened and getting more people to visit is actually helping
No offence
It’s so easy to get offended these days. We’re increasingly exposed to subcultures of people with varying contexts, viewpoints, and value systems - all with the potential to cause harm. Further, our media consumption is tilted by algorithms optimized to evoke outrage; a profitable trick that takes advantage
The head, the hands, and the heart
In a surprise 2022 twist, I teach a regular yoga class in Bali. My home for most of the last year - Ubud - is a world center of yoga; where people come from around the world to learn from some of the world’s best yoga teachers. In the
Fuck you money
I used to think that $10 million in the bank would set me free. At that level, I could safely live off the interest for a lifetime. That safety meant I could do anything I wanted for the rest of my life without fear of failure. When I left Canada
A groove, a rut, and a grave
I moved houses this week in Bali, going from the spiritual centre in the middle of the island to the surf center on the southern tip. After 9 months in the same, beautiful home, I felt a sense of forward motion when I recalled wisdom a friend shared with me
What I learned by studying math
It has been 15 years since I left math school for the wider world. Though I have never been asked to integrate by parts, my decision to study math at the university level has been a useful one. The idea of studying math after high school was not a longstanding
Is Love just Flow?
My essence is consciousness though I am prone to forget it. That repeated realization - the reunification with the present moment - offers me a sense of peace that I experience as bliss. I've found it in other moments in my life too. My yoga asana practice gets me there,
In shala
On my travels through the Americas and Asia last year, I realized that I intuited a checklist of all the things that made a particular place a viable home. Platforms like Nomadlist list do a thorough job of assessing the surface necessities but one thing stood out as a shorthand
Shit, I'm drowning
One day, we will be visited by our last breath. What is unknown is whether we’ll be lucid for that moment. The thought is so harrowing that many wish to die in their sleep rather than witness their one-way slip from lucidity. The Tibetans wrote a whole manual on
