2025
- Finding names for things
- My mental lenses
- Worldview, purpose, community, rituals
- My metaphors
- Same wine, new bottles
- Positive change is an incremental journey, not a lightswitch
- You don’t need to be a poet to be interesting
- My parables
- The value of depth
- No shortcut to knowing what you like
- Practice holding yourself
- My toolbox
- Spirituality = oneness
- 2025: Annual Post-it Note
2024
- Be with the eggs
- Philosophy of pleasure
- It doesn’t matter who comes to my funeral
- National values
- Kindness for the mean parts
- Believing in slow healing
- What I loved about our DIY wedding
- The clown lens on life
- Philosophy of time
- The collaborative universe
- Mental prisons, behavioral keys
- Challenge and meaning
- Theory of perspective
- Me, us, and you
- Musicians are doorways into emotional worlds
- Self-talk to soothe fear and shame
- Circles of care: an antidote to toxic productivity
- What “being an adult” means to me
- Pacifiers and local maximums
- The Philosophy of YES
- AI statement
- Cooking healthy identities
- Training my dog, training myself
- Overcoming decision paralysis
- The dance of exploration and commitment
- The house of life has more rooms than you think
- You need all kinds of minds
- Balance and burnout
- Everyone is a cracked teacup
- Venn-finitions
- My three identities
- 9 updates to my lens on life
- How travel rewires your brain
- Three surprising things I learned from raising a puppy
- Is it healthy?
- The infinite possibilities present in every moment
2023
- Change the rules to make it more fun
- 2024: Theme and beacons
- Peak experiences, a theory
- Skills and practices for living well
- Five plants that grow from life’s painful facts
- My questions
- Give people the chance to lend you an umbrella
- Fireside chat transcript (on Soapboxproject)
- Books are doorways to worlds
- Values for the eulogy are more important than goals for the year
- I climbed a little bit higher than yesterday
- Finding your questions
- Jumping into the cold water
- The self-awareness onion
- A new lens for my life
- To sculpt attention, use projects, not prohibitions
- Biased thoughts ‘aint no reason to feel shame
- Writing online about others requires consent
- Why I clown: a manifesto
- The mushroom theory
- Identities are hats and verbs
- Shame can make us strangers to ourselves
- For inner peace, map your expectations to reality
- Service is spiritual health
- Heart-learnings from 2022, Beacons for 2023
2022
- The Y-Axis of Life
- Reading is the easy part
- Change your energy source to stoke
- Attention Machines
- Commitment unlocks Beauty
- Welcoming Grief
- A simple way to practice emotional intelligence
- What if you saw your life as a work of art?
- My job here on this planet
- Spiritually expansive
- The rabbi’s wristwatch
2021
- Rest inspiration
- The bit and the radiance
- Two paths to contentment
- Glimpsing true nature
- Dishonest anger
- Work that’s enough
- Life is too hard without a refuge
- What non-attachment means to me
- Three inspiring humans
- Mid-year review 2021
2016
2015
2014
- Things I’ve noticed that I like
- Let’s play and see what gets done
- Watching the same movies
- Drawings of ruins
- Figure out your own damn hierarchy
- Burning dead dinosaurs
- Wabi Sabi
- Wash your intentions, trash your goals
- The entropy of people
- You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death?
- Found a few buddhas hanging out under logs
- Wine on the winemaking pages
- Public and private
- Quit what you don’t love
- Time to say wow
- Good listener
- Let’s not taco ’bout it
- It’s the ones who’ve cracked that the light shines through
- Inspirational quotes from patients
- What I’ve learned about habits
- Venn Diagram Dating
- I judge people for being judge-y
- My system (new one)
- The only respectable position is a hunch
- Planetary skin care
- Clownpliment
- Fishtanks
- Hands-dirty system
- Righteousness programming
- Done with tropical vacations
- Can we all just help each other?
- The news is mostly fear and voyeurism
- Religion and bikes
- Depth perception
- Internet girlfriend
- Circle of life escalator
- Little Jewish Brain
- The most important part of a pullup
- Osmolar gap
- Travel through the desert with just a pack of cigarettes
2013
- Kane’s Wall Monster
- Paying attention is good enough
- Money Sweater
- People are magical
- Follow your heart friends
- Escape from Flatworld
- Neuroscience chocolates
- Movement research
- The 4-hour work week is not desirable
- Coping
- Love emanating
- If I could give you anything, I would give you a kick
- Markers vs. Cell Phones
- Lord Warbunny Says…
- Shevy’s monster notes
- Napkin monsters
- Objects
- Cell phones roasting on an open fire
- My mantra
- Storybar
- Look into his eyes and you can see why all the little kids are dressed in dreams
- My mom is good at drawing men’s heads
- Investing in laid-back
- Happy 27th birthday card from my brother
- Personal ad
- Life, basically
- The fluorescent light test
- What do you get when you cross a camel with a llama
- Just hang outs
- Zero population growth, it’s a sexy thing!
- Happy in the rule prison
- Neuron furniture rearrangement
- I’m a dude
- Keep hitting that adventure button
- A dollop of newness
- Prestigious banana
- Outside radio
- Eye contact is hard, just sayin’
- Zen beer drinking 101
- Yarmulke Balance
- My high school graduation speech
- Join a health cult
- Friend bandwidth
- Some alveoli
- The things that I love
- Indecision is a torture fest
- Butterfly from mom, Thank goodness it’s spring, And now…with color
- What I won’t compromise on
- Jazz (from 10th grade)
- People are adaptable
- Dan’s Creative Chocolate
- Looking for a man with a focus and a temper
- Celebrating 100
- The art of noticing
- Jonesin’ for eyeballs
- Don’t read on the john
- Nots!
- Spiritual Peanut Butter
- Next Muffin
- Silly humor is the humor for me
- Baby massage
- Mediocre by the metrics
- Permissions
- Lost love letters
- Big belly, hot butt
- Wierdos have more fun
- Pillows for adrenals
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