Blog Category: Self-care

A little over a year ago I threw out almost everything I owned. Since then I’ve been living out of a single bag. And then I took off. I live in random places through airbnb or other house or room sharing services. I don’t have a car, I don’t even have a driver’s license. I […]

I want to disappear. I want to move into an old apartment building in a place where I would never talk to anyone. I would order delivery for all three meals a day. I would learn to talk to my neighbors, who spoke every language but English.  I would learn their games and play them […]

  I’m feeling bad about the Neanderthals. But for $30 million I can buy one. Seriously. Since we mapped the Neanderthal genome, for $30 million I can now find a surrogate mother (Claudia Azula Altucher?) and a professor at MIT can, I don’t know, inject a Neanderthal into her womb. Or something like that. Something […]

Rich Roll was having a heart attack on his staircase. He was fat. He hated his work. He was unhappy. A few years later he ran, swam, biked, 703 miles in seven days when he was 45 years old. When he was 40 he had a job he was unhappy at but he was still […]

Sometimes things are just simply horrible. There’s no question – some days and moments are the worst. People say “be positive”. That means nothing. Positive got you here. But you only get to know yourself when you see how you act in those moments. This is not a fancy post. Nothing funny really. No stories […]

Gabi Uri is missing muscles in her calves and her abs plus she has scoliosis. She's 16 and has had this condition since birth. Since she was born she's had 14 surgeries to help correct her condition as much as possible. She walks with a slight limp.

Jerry Seinfeld was asked by Howard Stern, “why didn’t you continue the series?” After all, Seinfeld was being offered $100,000,000 by NBC if he agreed to just one more season. For Seinfeld everything boiled down to timing. He didn’t have any special gimmicks in his act. So timing and writing was everything. In an interview […]