I’ve been to the Banya (Russian hot sauna) a few times in the past and every time I felt like it really helped my sore back/shoulders and gave me a really overall relaxed feeling. Every time I left I’d say to myself “Man, I can’t wait go back” then, for reasons unknown, I’d never go…
Learning is subjective. I learn from reading, from podcasts, from observing and listening but to actively seek out learning for its own sake is something that not a lot of people do. Throughout my life I’ve learned quite a few things simply because of my ADHD – I find something interesting, hyperfocus on it for…
Well OK this one was hard, not because I’m a sugar junkie (although I do enjoy a treat now and then) I have two small kids who always want a little sweet dessert and a wife who helpfully bring home leftover treats from events and just leaves them on the counter in plain view. So,…
I’m not sure what this was going to be like – I was a diet soda fiend. I had a diet coke for breakfast, for lunch, and a couple with dinner. Was it the caffeine? The bubbles? The familiarity? I was going to find out – and the results were.. inconclusive. The first thing I…
When I saw the Nirvana unplugged set on MTV I fell in love with the Martin D-18 guitar. The sounds coming out of it were mesmerizing and the tone was so pure in how it blended with Kurt’s voice. I swore that one day I would own a D-18. At the time I could definitely…
I’ve always liked being in the woods – as a child I would explore the scrub pine forest that was our backyard growing up. We’d wander around the white sands looking for cool stuff and just enjoying the primal feeling of being in nature, smelling the strong scent of pine and the earthy petrichor of…
First off – I’m not one of those people that listens to podcasts all day so I can reference them at cocktail parties and seem enlightened (yes, I’ve met those people) plus I have a hard time maintaining focus for more than a few minutes – my mind will invariably wander and when I snap…
Ok so. you may ask why a random thing like a book and not say, take 50 hours of python trainings or write some python programs. Well because it’s personal I bought this book 12 years ago when I was trying to brush up my Python skills and learn some new syntax and other things…
I’ve gone in and out with IF (intermittent fasting) over the last 4-5 years with the longest being around 30 hours but I was reading about the benefits of longer fasts (namely autophagy) and really wanted to try it. I settled on 60 hours because that means two whole days plus part of another day…
I’ve always liked TED Talks – present the key points of your information in 20 minutes or less. If I want to follow up and do a deep dive of the subject well that’s on me. I feel strongly about this – too many times I’ve slogged through a book where I felt at the…