Disrupting the Rabblement

First: By pants, I do of course mean trousers. Not underwear. I have three pairs of those. Now: I’ve owned no more than one pair of pants at a time for the past eight months. And somehow, the world hasn’t ended. I know, shocking. It’s interesting to note how people respond when I tell them [...]

RSS and e-mail readers, please click here to watch the video that accompanies this post. I left New Orleans on Wednesday, fitting everything I own into my carry on luggage or on my person. Hooray and yay and other such words of triumphancy. By my count, I now own 59 things, though that number is [...]

As you may already know, my grand plan is this: Leave my 9-to-5 job at the end of November. Return to Ireland and set up my own business. Build the business to the point where I’m delivering more value and earning more money than I am now, while working a maximum of 20 hours per [...]

I recently read some good advice from James Oliver in his book Affluenza. The book examines the curious phenomenon of people nowadays having more wealth and opportunity than ever, yet suffering from ever-increasing levels of emotional distress; the more Americanized a culture becomes, the more likely its inhabitants are to suffer from depression. Oliver recommends [...]

The things you own, end up owning you. That quote is from Fight Club, one of my all-time favorite movies. It sums up a lesson I first learned about six years ago, when I was stuck working in a department store in Ireland, having dropped out of college and dreaming of one day living and [...]