The Minimalists

We sat down with Chris Brogan and Julien Smith to talk with them about making a lasting impact…

A simple rule to help simplify social media…

Do you keep wishing you could create something meaningful?

We often look at the things we enjoy—relationships, experiences, possessions—and we want to hold on to them forever. But life doesn’t work this way…

We are but dogs, leashed by fear, thrashing in the collars of our own obligations…

Sometimes a person has to go away to come back. Accordingly, The Minimalists are moving to Montana…

In early May, I strapped my bike panniers on my bike and pedaled away from my little house. I’d barely pedaled two blocks when my phone rang…

What are you passionate about? How do you incorporate those passions into your life? This summer, Ryan and I were fortunate enough to spend a couple hours with Cal Newport, during which we discussed life, habits, discipline, and why “follow your passion” is bad advice…

What if you removed one material possession from your life each day for the next month? What would happen?

Imagine yourself reaching for your camera-phone as the sun sets beneath billowing clouds, a smear of pale pink on the horizon. You take a picture. And then another. And then another…

There’s a guy everyone knows. Let’s call him Car Guy…

Perhaps Joyce and Hemingway and Dostoevsky all shimmied out of the womb with a quill in hand, but alas I did not…

It is not ambition that sets a man apart: it is the distance he is prepared to go…

People have all sorts of clever words to describe what they want to do: Objective. Target. Plan. Endgame. Outcome. Goal. These days, instead of an arbitrary goals, I prefer to have a direction in which I travel…

Over the last few years, I’ve made a few dietary changes that have significantly improved my life…