Tagged: happiness

January 31, 2023

I Quit My Job To Become A Lumberjack

First things first, I didn’t do what the title says 🙂 This is my first attempt at joining the bottom-dwelling world of clickbaity bloggers who use salacious and misleading titles to gain clicks, and probably my last. If you’re new...

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August 6, 2021

Money, Happiness, And Security

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April 2, 2021

My Work Happiness Over Time

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March 5, 2021

Happiness: An Analysis

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miscellaneous

December 29, 2020

A Letter To Modern Times

*I wrote this recently while on a blissful backpacking trip in the wilderness, away from the sounds, distractions, and cacophony of modernity. I hope you can relate… Hey Modern Times, it’s me Dave. Can I just call you “MT”, I’m...

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August 2, 2019

Does Being Financially Independent Make You Happier?

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The Slowly Changing Routine Of The Time I Bought Back

life experience / side-hustle

July 16, 2019

The Slowly Changing Routine Of My Semi-Retired Schedule

I went part time at my job in October 2017 after exceeding my target financial independence net worth. It’s been my intention to keep posting updates on both my new work life as well as my non-work life. I’ve done...

book review

February 1, 2019

Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path To Joy by Mo Gawdat, Review

I’m a pretty pragmatic person. I was always good at math and tend to look at things quantitatively. So when I heard about a book about happiness written by the Chief Business Officer of Google X and a tech nerd,...

financial independence / outdoors and health

September 21, 2018

What Alex Honnold Can Teach Us About Living

Okay, if you bothered to open this post after seeing the title you probably fall in one of two camps. The first camp are people who follow the world of outdoor sports and who are possibly climbers or know something...

work

August 14, 2018

Are You The Mission Or An Enabler?

A little while back I did a post called Is Your Job Total B.S.? It discussed a Bloomberg article about David Graeber’s book, Bullshit Jobs. In sum Graeber, asserts that most jobs today are total B.S., especially what he calls...

outdoors and health

April 9, 2018

Three Ways To Approach A Mindful Simple Life With Less

Happy Monday folks, this is a short post to announce that I have a guest post today on Mindful Explorer @ ChrisIstace.com! Well, I have one-third of a guest post. The coolest part is the post is actually a joint...

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January 12, 2018

The Best Thing You’ll See Today

My blog is only two and a half months old and I’ve been trying to establish a rhythm. I’ve been putting out my main posts on Tuesdays which tend to be longer content, with an additional post on Fridays. The...