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I made the mistake of looking up how many breaths a person takes in their lifetime. 605,491,200 if we live to be seventy-two. So Elon Musk has roughly 100 times more money than I’ll ever have gasps of air. Neat. Worse — because it’s not like I can invest in more air &md...

The benefits of walking for overall physical health and mental well-being are significant and indisputable. The topic has been studied to death. But if scientists do anything well, it’s to study a thing over and over, to support or refute the previous findings or merely refine whatever’s...

I made the mistake of looking up how many breaths a person takes in their lifetime. 605,491,200 if we live to be seventy-two. So Elon Musk has roughly 100 times more money than I’ll ever have gasps of air. Neat. Worse — because it’s not like I can invest in more air &md...

I get the great honor of watching people overcome obstacles to achieve their goals. What never ceases to amaze me is how the smallest adjustments or tiniest tweaks can clear your path to success. Sometimes it’s a mindset shift. A slightly different perception of how you are forging you...

When I was a kid and I had to hide my transgender identity, I became a great actor. Maybe even the greatest actor. I remember joking to myself that I would one day win an Oscar, with the sentimental hope that one day, people would understand. With an unsupportive family, no chance of receiving ...

It is very difficult to choose where to start this short piece that I intended to share with much younger and brilliant open-minded people as you are today. However, I do not know a particular wording, phrase, or topic to begin these conversations with myself and, indirectly, to those who I think ar...

It dawned on me the other day… I’ve been riding bikes for a very long time. From big wheels to training wheels to my first dirt bike to my first ten-speed, steel, aluminum, and carbon, department store mountain bikes to fancy bike store road bikes, tandems, hybrids, fixed-gear, single-s...

If you’ve been there, you’ll know how the fog hangs sullenly over the hills above Sausalito, clinging to the atmosphere and rendering the whole of existence a dull gray until the sun and rain show a rainbow. Every little while, this same fog will slide down the yacht masts, creeping a...

Lights have a profound effect on the natural world, influencing the behavior of animals, pests, and bugs in ways that can range from harmless to harmful. From the bright lights of cities to the low-intensity glow of solar lights in rural areas, lights play a significant role in shaping the nocturnal...

That’s more than a quarter million dollars… A truly astonishing amount of money. And imagine if you make more than that OR are a much better saver than average… Now you likely you’re ok having some of your money within a 401k… even with the outrage...

Money is a powerful tool that has changed every aspect of my life. Seven years ago, my goal was to save up enough money to quit my job and coast. Live off my investments indefinitely. I hit my “retirement” number before my original projections — mostly due to an extremely high savi...

Clearly there is no sense in pursuing a life that takes for one to grow up and learn some essentials for the first 25 years, only to be toiling and moiling for the next 45, and finally be submitted to gradual deterioration, if not decomposition, of the body-mind, for the final part of it (if one is ...