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I graduated high school in 1998 and enrolled in my first college class that fall.

When you think about how non-fiction writers make money, books seem the obvious answer.

This article is the what and the when of joining the military at 43 years old.

I emailed a link to a friend which prompted him to ask “how do you find so many interesting things on the internet?”

We left Zine’s house around 4:00 p.m., took the train to Jatujak and then took bus A1; this was before the train went all the way to the airport.

We arrived last evening by train.

As I was walking down the road that morning, I didn’t know I was about to stumble upon 240 years of Thai history sitting at one table.

I want to be a better storyteller.

I got my first cell phone in 2003 and was so disillusioned with the thing by 2005, I threw it away.

There's a longing, a craving to know more than we get to know.

The problem with ideas is that you can't decide to have them.

There is a documentary called The Secret Life of Lance Letscher.

How do you find interesting things on the web?

The secret of theft, which is also called "creativity," is you have to steal a bit from a lot of different places.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

I’ve just stumbled on a book that made $64,000 on Kickstarter.

Frank Abagnale, the “Catch Me If You Can” guy, talks at Google:

A lot of people are unhappy with their jobs.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Early automobiles caused as much controversy as driverless cars do today.

I boarded the Etihad plane in Dallas and was immediately reminded why American airlines suck.

I moved to Thailand in 2009.

The American Dream is alive and well—in Northern Europe.

Joe Rogan on getting stuck in life:

I’ve been using Linux as my sole desktop operating system since 2015.

I just don’t find enough good stuff to write Reading List posts that often.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money.

“I’ll Fight You For The Library” by Taylor Mali:

When I started digging into GitHub, one of the first things I noticed was GitHub Pages.

Remember, Mondays are fine.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Pat Flynn was the first blogger I saw publishing monthly income reports.

93-year-old man lives in a cabin he built by himself, 5 miles from the nearest road.

Solar Freakin’ Roadways!

After high school I joined the Marine Corps and my first assignment was to Okinawa.

My introduction to Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You was in a Fast Company article which I wrote about here.

I’ve long wondered why some people love what they do while others lead lives of mediocrity and boredom.

I am a fan of Chris Anderson’s Long Tail and when I heard he had a new book on the “long tail of atoms,” I wanted to take a look.

While I was WWOOFing in Japan I read The Millionaire Messenger by Brendon Burchard.

Keith Ferrazzi has built one of the world’s largest networks and considering where he came from, that’s a feat.

I looked for other reviews on this book before writing my own and was surprised to find so many positive reviews on other blogs.

I read an article by Michael Ellsberg called 8 Steps to Getting What You Want… Without Formal Credentials when it was first published in September of 2011.

Ryan Holiday works as the Director of Marketing at American Apparel.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

In a recent Fast Company article, Cal Newport talks about how Steve Jobs became Steve Jobs of Apple instead of Steve Jobs of the Los Altos Zen Center.

I’ve been following Cal Newport’s blog for a couple of years.

I enjoy reading interesting stories from interesting people and it seems most people doing interesting things are doing them on the road.

There are not enough good periodicals.