New office views.
After leaving Nebo to run my own business (again), I went searching for a small office space for a few reasons…
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Jack-o-Lanterns.
Apparently carving vegetables has been a common practice throughout history. It’s pretty odd, but also lots of fun. Among all…
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Phantom by Jo Nesbo Book Review
I’ve never been the type to read or really enjoy Crime or Horror as a genre. However, occasionally there will…
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Orthodox Church by Timothy Ware
The Orthodox Church by Timothy Ware is an introductory book on the history, beliefs, and practices of the Orthodox Church….
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80/20 Sales & Marketing by Perry Marshall
80/20 Sales & Marketing is a book that provides unique tools to help readers maximize their marketing efforts and increase…
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How I Cut 1:57 Off My Average 5k Time By Tweaking My Playlist
[Note: This post originally ran December 2012 back when iTunes was still a thing. You can skip down to the…
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Oakland Cemetery. One of Atlanta’s hidden gems.
Oakland Cemetery is one of Atlanta’s first cemeteries. I live about a mile and a half from the Memorial entrance….
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New York City Avenue
I did a short 3 day trip to New York City for a business conference. Between sessions, meetings and flight…
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Book Review
I’ve tried to read books from a diverse range of settings and countries, but aside from the outstanding Sea of…
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In Spite of the Gods by Edward Luce Book Review
India has been around for a long time. Like more than 5,000 years – back to the earliest establishments of…
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The Peachtree Center Ave. Cycletrack in Downtown Atlanta
I’ve been cycling in Atlanta ever since we moved here in 2013. And while I wouldn’t call Atlanta the next…
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Beautiful Perkerson Park – one of my favorite hidden gems of Atlanta
Perkerson Park is nestled in the Capitol View neighborhood in Southwest Atlanta. Between the disc golf course, new playground, ballfields,…
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The Mill at Sweetwater Creek State Park
We went hiking at Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs, GA. It’s about a 20 minute drive due West…
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You Know You Live in Atlanta When…Coca-Cola Is Art
Just up the street from my house there’s a music venue called “Grocery on Home” – and they have the…
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Pathways in Grant Park Atlanta, GA
This photo is from walk on the north end of Grant Park. It’s Atlanta’s original city park and home to Zoo…
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Eastside BeltLine
The Eastside phase of the Atlanta BeltLine was the first major section paved and open for business. The New York…
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Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver is a novel that weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry…
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Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich is a book that explores the negative effects of positive thinking and its reach into every…
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On Leaving Nebo Agency & Going Full-Time with a Growing Business
Today is my last day working for Nebo Agency. I’ve been with Nebo for over 2 years. It’s by far…
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Enjoying An Afternoon in Grant Park
We’ve been living at our new house in the Grant Park neighborhood of Atlanta for more than 7 months now….
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Made In America by Bill Bryson Book Review
Made In America by Bill Bryson is a book that explores the history of the English language in the United…
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46+ Little Changes That Made A Big Difference in My Life
Big choices & events in life almost always set the stage for the vast majority of love, happiness, wealth and overall…
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All The Stuff I’ve Ever Tried
The best career advice book I’ve ever read is How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by…
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Books Read in 2014
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. But I did not stop there. I haven’t kept up the same pace…
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Do The Work by Steven Pressfield Book Review
Do The Work by Steven Pressfield is not a book based on any kind of science of motivation, psychology, or…
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Last Places by Lawrence Millman Book Review
A couple years ago, I read Travels In Siberia by Ian Frazier – which was one of the top 5 travel…
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Contagious by Jonah Berger Book Review
In the past ten years, there’s been a really fun genre of books that take normally boring academic research in…
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Vagabonding by Rolf Potts Book Review
“Vagabond” is a word with lots of negative connotations – laziness, narcissism, dependency, aimlessness – someone avoiding commitment to home…
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The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin Book Review
Josh Waitzkin was called a chess prodigy at a very young age, and was actually the subject of a film…
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Cooper Gap to Woody Gap On The Appalachian Trail
In my quest to hike the entirety of the Appalachian Trail in Georgia, I had left out a short section…
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Blood River by Tim Butcher Book Review
For me, the best travel books are more than just narratives that just tell how the author did A, then…
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Observations & Training Tips from My Second Marathon
It’s been 2 1/2 years after running in my first marathon, but on October 4th, 2014 I ran in my 2nd…
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GA 400 Cycle & Pedestrian Underpass
The Georgia DOT rebuilt the interchange between GA 400 and I-85. They added a couple of new flyovers. It’s been…
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Northside BeltLine
The Northside BeltLine is really close to our apartment in south Buckhead. It has a very different feel than the…
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Atlanta Silverbacks Stadium
I visited Atlanta Silverbacks’ stadium. It reminded me of a Minor League Baseball game. Super chill, cheap, up close action…
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10+ Books That Stayed With Me
About a month ago on Facebook, there was a chain post going around where you had to name 10 books…
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The Inner Game of Work by W. Timothy Gallwey Book Review
When you’re trying to learn something new or excel at something you’re familiar with, there’s a predictable process that we…
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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Book Review
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg is a book in…
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Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon Book Review
Let’s see where to start…you’ll only be interested in this book if your are interested in History, Economics, and American…
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The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau Book Review
First off – it’s absurdly hard to find a business book that’s not too fluffy on anecdotes of one-off successes…
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Tubes by Andrew Blum Book Review
When I publish this post, the content will zip out of the back of my computer over my head to…
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Book Review
As a spectator, watching a running race mainly involves standing around for a while, then watching for a few seconds…
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson Book Review
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages…
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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson Book Review
With the move to Atlanta, new job, and new routines, it took me an embarrassingly long time to read Bill…
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Book Review
I grew up about 10 years too late and on the wrong side of the world to fully appreciate Ready…
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What Happens When An American Posts About Tiananmen Square On Weibo (China’s Twitter)
June 4th, 2014 was the 25th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square protests/massacre in China, immortalized by the Tank Man photo. It…
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Reader Question: How To Choose What To Write About For Your Personal Blog
I received a reader question that basically relates to how to choose what to write about for your blog/book/etc. Here’s…
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Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer Book Review
I’ve never thought of memory as skill until I read Moonwalking With Einstein. The book is Joshua Foer’s exploration into…
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Unicoi Gap to Dick’s Creek Gap On The Appalachian Trail
Mid-March is thru-hiker’s season on the Appalachian Trail. The most common schedule for anyone planning on hiking all 2,000+ miles…
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Book Review
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a classic novel that tells the story of Okonkwo, a leader in an…
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On Visiting Boston, Massachusetts
During the last week of December 2014, my wife Shannon and I went to Boston, Massachusetts on a brief 5-day…
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On Visiting Portland, Maine
During our visit to Boston, we were able to take a day trip to Portland, ME via Amtrak. It was…
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Books Read in 2013
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. But I did not stop there. I haven’t kept up the same pace…
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Photos of Atlanta’s Downtown Railroads
Atlanta is a city founded upon and built by railroads. But unlike a lot of railroad towns around America –…
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North Georgia Mountains
I took this photo somewhere in the Chattahoochee National Forest along the Appalachian Trail. There’s a lot of outcrops and…
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Observations & Training Tips from My First Trail Half Marathon
Last week, I ran in my first Trail Half Marathon – specifically the Mystery Mountain Half Marathon by GUTS at…
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Springer Mountain to Cooper Gap on the Appalachian Trail
So far on the Appalachian Trail in Georgia, we’ve had both an idyllic experience, and a very miserable experience hiking overnight…
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Evening at Turner Field
This photo is from a warm summer evening at Turner Field. There are few things nicer than summer baseball.
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Stereotypes of Top 50 US Cities
I always find it really fascinating to find out how people from different places can perceive the same things so…
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Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is a story of a family’s journey to the Congo in 1959. The Price…
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Don Quixote by Cervantes
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is a classic Spanish novel that has been widely regarded as one of the…
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Collection of City Time Lapse Films
I’m a huge fan of time lapse films in general, and of cities in particular. I’ve never been able to…
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The Best Unlikely Sandwich
A few months ago when the New York Times wrote about PB&P sandwiches (yes, as in Peanut Butter and Pickle) – it…
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5 Lessons From Simplifying Online Life
A few weeks ago, I started drastically paring back all the tools, feeds, news sites, and networks that I use….
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State Botanical Gardens | Best Places To Run in Athens, GA
Tour guides at the University of Georgia love to talk about how the State of Georgia Botanical Gardens and the…
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Tesnatee Gap To Unicoi Gap On The Appalachian Trail
The last time my brother, brother-in-law, and I hiked a section of the Appalachian Trail – it was an absolute…
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I Drank Kopi Luwak Today
In Southeast Asia, there’s a jungle cat called the Civet that loves to eat coffee cherries. The civet’s digestive system uses…
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North Oconee River Greenway Trail | Best Places To Run in Athens, GA
If you live in or around Athens, GA – you simply must explore the North Oconee Greenway – especially if…
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Our Dumb World by The Onion
Our Dumb World is a satirical desk atlas that was published by Little, Brown and Company on October 30, 2007….
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God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion is a book by Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist and professorial fellow at New College, Oxford….
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Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a novel that tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love…
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Non-Violence by Mark Kurlansky
Non-Violence by Mark Kurlansky is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging…
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One Year of Running In Vibram Fivefingers Bikilas
I started running distance when I was 10 years old, and continued throughout high school. I was never particularly fast,…
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2 Really Cool Old Maps
I’ve wasted enjoyed thousands of hours staring at maps – especially old maps. Here are two of the best maps I’ve…
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Books Read in 2012
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. Here’s my lessons learned and short review of each. This post covers…
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Books Read in 2011
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. Here’s my lessons learned and short review of each. This post covers…
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Books Read in 2010
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. Here’s my lessons learned and short review of each. This post covers…
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Books Read in 2009
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. Here’s my lessons learned and short review of each.
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Books Read In 2008
From 2007 to 2012, I read 263+ books. Here’s my lessons learned and short review of each.
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Books Read in 2007
Last week I read a post by Julien Smith called “Lessons I Learned Reading Over 200 Books.” It was really fascinating…
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A Bear Walks Into Camp
Or, Our Experience On The Appalachian Trail Overnight, And What We Learned Ever since I read Bill Bryson’s book A Walk…
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How I Set Up A Standing Desk + Home Office For $50
Even though I think the health benefits of standing are a bit overstated – anything done in moderation is probably going to…
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Apparently You Have To Be Really Skilled Now
Here’s a career and business idea that seems to be bubbling up in America right now… Your credentials don’t matter….
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Hidden Urban Trails | Riverbend Rd. Athens, GA Edition
I love the idea that even in the most urban areas – there are still really random trails to explore…
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Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson Book Review
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson is a memoir that takes readers on a journey…
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Photos From The Rural Georgia Countryside
I’m not a photographer, but I love to experiment. And I’m thrilled to live in an age of nearly fool-proof…
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Why Free Software Should Be Very Suspicious
Shopping for invoicing software. Now that I have your full and rabid attention, here’s why you should not trust free…
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Cook’s Greenway Trail | Best Places To Run in Athens, GA
Around Athens, I generally stick to the UGA Intramural Fields. However, if you drive about 10 to 15 minutes north…
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First Marathon Observations
Back on March 18th I ran the Georgia Marathon. It was my first marathon – and only my second long-distance…
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Downtown Athens Georgia
Various photos that I’ve taken around downtown Athens, Georgia before moving to Atlanta.
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Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson Book Review
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson is an exploration of the history, evolution, and current state of the English language….
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical novel written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published in four volumes between 1883 and 1885….
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5 Reasons To Start Biking For Transportation
I’ve been commuting around Athens, GA via bike for 3 years now. It all started with biking the .75 miles…
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Blowback by Chalmers Johnson Book Review
Blowback by Chalmers Johnson is an incisive and controversial book that examines the dangers of American empire. Johnson argues that…
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Copywriter’s Handbook by Bob Bly Book Review
The Copywriter’s Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Copy That Sells by Robert W. Bly is a comprehensive guide to…
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In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Book Review
In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson is a travelogue that chronicles the author’s journey through Australia. The book follows…
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Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman is a book that…
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5 Reasons Why People Who Love Social Media Should Deactivate Facebook
Yes, because of network effects, Facebook keeps getting more valuable every time it adds another person to its 800 million…
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Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience is a book based on a series of lectures given by William James in 1901…
