Updated 31st October from Playa del Carmen, Mexico — This is a now page inspired by the project by Derek Sivers. It’s like an ‘about me’ but less boring ;) What I’m thinking about right now If life were a game, how would you win? If I don’t have stimulants (or external validation/insecurity) driving me forward, what is my motivation to do anything? Can I…

I’ve always thought a lot about productivity and organization. We want to get more done in life because that’s good, right? Right?!? This is something that is rarely questioned. It falls in that dangerous area of beliefs that we hold that we don’t think to question. This is the stuff…

Masculinity is an interesting topic for me as a guy and one that I have observed with fascination from afar. The discussion is rife on social media and there seems to be a resurgence of people taking on more traditional gender roles in relationships while at the same time, various…

It’s no secret that we all spend a lot of time seated, working on laptops, and staring at phones. This leads to a hunched forward posture with a collapse of the chest and shoulders and a craning of the neck. …

Well, for one, because my audience is not 5th graders… — Common wisdom in the business space is to write so a 5th grader can understand you. There are apps like Hemingway as well as a whole slew of newer AI writing helpers that have come out recently, reinforcing and facilitating this. I did it for years, artificially dumbing down my…

Or 3 ways that bioimpedance scales are a load of crap — Introduction Hi, I’m Emil, I’ve worked as a health coach for nearly a decade and in a past life was a medical doctor. I’ve pooh-poohed bioimpedance data for as long as I can remember but recently, I was forced to use a ‘Smart Scale’ as it was all I had available. …

As a minimalist, I have built a habit of automatically declining ‘free’ stuff because, if you think about it, it is rarely actually free… — My girlfriend and I were walking along the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, when a photographer approached us, asking if he could take our photos for free. I immediately but politely declined which I don’t think he expected because he immediately went on to explain how it worked:

My initial thought was… “Wtf. How do I get one of those…” — I became a Friend of Medium the day it came out after seeing the new logo nestled in the corner of a profile picture and thinking: “Wtf. How do I get one of those…” In all seriousness, after briefly looking into it, it was an immediate no-brainer and I signed…

Surprisingly deep and emotional life lessons from a video game. — I play a game called Rimworld. In it, you, along with a handful of crash-landed survivors, build a colony on a far-flung planet from scratch. …