For most of high school, my main sport was tennis. I had played since I was a kid, and I was decently good, though not enough to be a top-tier singles player on the varsity team. Outside of the top three, the rest of us played doubles. I remember one particular game, where my partner …
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My experience jumping off a 600ft tall bridge in a banana suit
While I wouldn't consider myself a traditional risk-taker or adrenaline-junkie, I have engaged in several adventures in the past that would bring goosebumps to many. In 2012, as part of a team of six, I drove an auto rickshaw 1500 miles (2400km) down the west coast of India. For those who haven't been, driving in …
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How to Solve the New York Times Crossword Puzzle ✏️
Crossword puzzles, like Jeopardy! or pub trivia, are a quintessentially knowledge-nerdy fascination. They combine both high-brow and low-brow knowledge, ranging in diverse fields from sports, music, and movies to ancient history and books of the Bible. Throw in tricky clues laced with puns and an interlacing grid where one answer can unlock a whole section …
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Book Review – Siddhartha
Over the last decade or so, I've come across Siddhartha on many people's lists of favorite books. Despite its short length, it sat unread on my shelf for many years. I even carried it around in my bag for a while, but never seemed to be in the right place to pick it up. Last …
Core Values Redux: Adventure
This post is part of an ongoing challenge to go through James Clear's list of Core Values and take a week to reflect on each one. This actually marks the fourth time that I've written about Adventure is some form. I first mentioned how it is interestingly tied to January 14th and India, when I …
Googrilla Warfare
At the beginning of the year, I decided to turn my lethargy around and get back in shape. I used some of the habit tips I had picked up and added Dry January as the fuel to get my started. To date, I have continued my initial successes and gone to the gym at least …
February 2022 – Progress Update
This is the third in a series of two other posts about trying to make some changes in my life as we changed over into 2022. While the first talked about how I think about habits and the second described one of the tools I was using, Dry January, this last one is about some …
Dry January
I previously wrote about trying to get back on track starting in 2022, and one of the tools that I used seems to have become quite popular over the last few years: Dry January. While there are people every year that decide to forgo alcohol in the month after the holidays, I imagine that the …
Habits as stretching
As with most of the world, I hoped and sought to turn things around as we moved into 2022. The last few years have been...well unlike any that most of us living have ever experienced. I know that many have been much more profoundly impacted by the pandemic in emotional, psychological, and personal ways than …
Bad Blood, Elizabeth Holmes, and Why Biology Is Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks
I can't remember when I first heard about Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, but there rarely goes by a month when I haven't thought about them since. I'm not alone: the tale has gripped many and been spun into a book, a documentary, and at least two podcasts. Although, having spent the better part …
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Chortles and Harrumphs 