Colin Wright's Blog, page 22

Made-Up Metrics

There’s a difference between money made doing work that drains you and money made doing work that fills you with passion and joy. It’s difficult to quantify that difference, however. A dollar is a dollar, however you earn it. The latent value of that dollar ebbs and flows with the market, but neither gains nor […]

This Is It

I was probably five or six years old the first time I thought I was going to die. The exact context of what happened is fuzzy, as I was just a little kid, but I know I was at a friend’s house, and I know this friend had a pool in their backyard, and I […]

A Year Without Dating

If you’ve read my work for any amount of time, you probably know that I regularly and enthusiastically engage in lifestyle experiments. Which in practice means that I adjust the way I do something for a set period, and then stop to assess what I learned from the experience. Some of these experiments are short-term […]

Principles, Frameworks, and Policies

I aspire to always be learning, experiencing new things, and growing as a consequence. This is one of my guiding principles. I work on projects that amplify each other, so that effort in one area tends to result in latent payoffs in another. This is one of my operational frameworks. I tend to keep notifications […]

Why This Way?

One of the most important questions you can ask yourself, at any point in your life, is “Why?” A deluge of valuable realizations can dawn as you pause and assess and wonder and, perhaps, make some changes to the way you do things. We’re not typically encouraged to question the paths we follow, so reaching […]

Weeklies

It’s amazing how difficult it can be to instill regular doses of novelty into a rooted lifestyle. One of the more valuable aspects of traveling frequently or semi-frequently, I would argue, is the constant exposure to newness: unfamiliar tastes, smells, sights, sounds, colors, habits, routines, people, experiences, animals and plants, sports, traditions, and everything else. […]

Stimulus & Action

I love rearranging my furniture. It still feels weird to own furniture, truth be told, but now that I have it, I’m an enthusiastic repositioner. Which probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. My lifestyle since 2009 has been predicated on changing things around, adjusting my environment (and myself within that environment) to ensure […]

Thumb Wrestling

This last year or so has been a period of change for me: a lot of new experiments, a lot of new perspectives, a lot of new ideas and false-starts and moments of valuable and intense deliberation. But it’s also been a time of more than a little confusion. And disconcertion. And discomfort. There’s a […]

Out of Time

There’s a trick I use when I’m undertaking a project or process that’s particularly onerous or tedious, but which I...

Conclusions

Something I’ve learned about myself over the years is that I’m not great at goodbyes. It’s not that I find...