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The lie of mise-en-place
I love the phrase “mise-en-place,” which is common to professional kitchens and translates to “everything in its place”....
How I’m surviving the next four years
SNAFU is an acronym for Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. The phrase was born out of the chaos...
How to train a puppy
A friend of mine just got an 8-week puppy! I’ve raised two dogs from puppyhood, and helped a...
How to buy a (used) car
I have two friends looking to buy used cars right now, and over the last fifteen years I...
The opposite of distress
I love when the English language has a word for something that I’m trying to describe that isn’t...
The day Devin died in my arms
When I was in college, my friend Devin died in my arms. He didn’t actually die. But it...
A lifelong obsession with movement
In 2003, I broke my neck on a trampoline. That sounds extreme, but it is actually fairly common....
The portals of learning
I recently sat down with an entrepreneur who is nine months into building his business. He described the...
Nobody is coming to save you
There’s a social media account I like called Nature is Metal. Their content is not for the faint...
Why Snafu?
I stumbled into the phrase SNAFU by accident. Last winter, my father and a close friend both asked...
Is this safe to try?
I’m frequently doing ridiculous self-experiments like eating just three ingredients for six months, sitting in freezing cold water,...
How much evidence do you need to know that something is true?
When I first walked into a gymnastics gym, I had zero experience with gymnastics or acrobatics of any...