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Habits for Sleep

I’ve always had a contentious relationship with sleep. As a child, I’d get up after the house was...

37 Lessons Learned from 37 Years

I turned 37 earlier this week and thought it would be a fun creative constraint to list out...

Habits for Fasting & What I’ve Learned from Not Eating for 5 Days

I haven’t had anything to eat or drink except for water for five days. That would have sounded...

The Psychology of Money, Ramit Sethi, and Wanting to Crawl Out of My Own Skin

I was standing on the hilltop, sweating, having just run up 1200 vertical feet in under 10 minutes....

Habits for Mental Health & Addiction

​A video I made recently, about talking someone down off of a bridge, has gone viral. The video,...

How Do We Make the Most of the Time We Have?

Early in high school, I discovered what Tyler Cowen calls a “quake book” – a book that fundamentally...

On the Shortness of Life

I was driving home after my aunt’s memorial on Saturday afternoon when my car was hit by someone...

A Day in the Life of Robin P. Zander

This video is a day in the life building my company, Zander Media. We’ve experienced a lot of...

The Future of Work Needs to Invest in Itself

My guest today is Allison Baum Gates, a General Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital and a lecturer at...

A Student of Ido Portal and Moshe Feldenkrais: My Movement Practice

In almost 3 decades of maintaining a rigorous movement practice, I have often struggled to define myself as...

Lessons Learned from the Last 35 Years

I’m turning 35 today and thought I would take a moment to write some of my lessons learned...

Community and Joy – An interview…

As part of the updates to this website and across the RPZ brand, I’ve recently sat down for...