Essays

Technical notes on strategy, trust, systems, and durable growth.

Indian Peaks Sans Snow

This photo was taken November 10, at 12,300 feet in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. Andy Rice and I did a roundabout off-trail loop up and down this twelver one afternoon, because we did…

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Fire Addiction and Brain Wave Entrainment

The process of brain wave entrainment is that type of mental therapy by which external cues (rhythms in visual or audio stimuli) synchronize internal functions (brain waves) to promote ... something. That "something", scientists…

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Thanks for What?

What are people thankful for? It seems that Thanksgiving is the holiday that launches people into insanity, because it marks that time of year when stress levels peak doing those things that they have…

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Self-Sufficiency?

Andrew Skurka's completion of the Great Western Loop, at its surface, provided a snapshot into the window of what was a monumental effort in self-sufficiency. Of course, there were others involved, working behind the…

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