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It never ends
After moving into a great building in New York that has a gym downstairs, my wife Phoebe and I have started working out a lot. Weights, cardio, yoga, and other stretches, along with diet, all in a won…
Elon Musk: Strive for greater collective enlightenment
“I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that make…
Solving a difficult ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch problem
On zenbilling, we've recently experienced a very troubling issue in development: It would seem like parts of the application didn't reload properly, and when we made some change in some model and relo…
How much time are you wasting right now?
When I look back at the past 5 or 10 years of being in business ... there's a lot of wasted effort.
Countless hours spent coding things that didn't need coding.
Contemplating products and launches an…
Manifesting an apartment in New York (or anything else) the easy way
Howdy, Reader
It's me, "zenbilling-Calvin". Yes, it's been a long time!
Last time we spoke I was motorcycling in India. Now I'm citibiking in Manhattan :)
Phoebe and I left India for good 2 months ago…
Doing the work
Sweep sweep sweep. I'm good at it. Excellent multi-tasker, incredible at getting lots of small things done. But I must get big things done as well, or I deteriorate. I've gotten more done on 8-hour fl…
Amazon as a reflection of Jeff Bezos
The New York Times on Jeff Bezos' take-over of the Washington Post:
Amazon, which is as much a reflection of Mr. Bezos’ personality as a corporation worth $125 billion can be, is by far the fastest-g…
Experiencing unworthiness so we may know worthiness
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed in a while. A beautiful TEDx poem/talk by Simran Singh about her calling to start 11:11 magazine.
I love the story about how she found the gra…
An exercise in self-worth
I've always been the kind of person who didn't much enjoy physical exercise (other than sex, of course). After practicing yoga daily (okay, 5½ times per week) for 10 months, I needed a long break. 3 m…