Mid-November, I like to think about my priorities for the next year and distill them down into a few simple themes.  Doing this helps me focus on the important things so I can make them happen. Sometimes, this takes a lot of thought and strategizing,...

Good morning. Today I’m relaunching PrimeCuts Newsletter on Beehiiv.  I’m amped and it’s about time. I will be writing on simplicity, transformation, wisdom, personal health, human behavior, and creativity. I will strive to go beyond telling people what to...

Last week, I wrote about wisdom and cynicism. TLDR – you can’t have both.  Today, I’m writing about wisdom and time. My friend Brian wrote the book on multiple timeframe technical analysis for traders. Here’s a photo of my copy… The gist is...

Our brains are so big that we can think up all kinds of clever schemes to fool ourselves and so we do just that. Maybe we don’t want to face failure or a good thing went bad or there’s something about ourselves we don’t like or the inevitability of death...

I took the idea of Intermittent Fasting and applied it to my phone. I call it Digital Intermittent Fasting and I’ve been doing it on the weekends as a way to disconnect from the stupid 247365 noise spigot and endless doom scroll treadmill. Too much of...

Everybody is so busy in this country it is killing us.  We wear this busyness like a badge of honor and we don’t even realize it. Busy busy busy. You have to be busy because everybody else is so busy. It’s kinetic. It’s mimetic. Or maybe it’s just the...

The other day, I put this tweet out there, As you age, you either get cynical or wise. I’ve been thinking about wisdom and aging and I noticed that some people grow closer to the most important people in their lives as they grow older, while others...

Here’s one for people who want to start getting healthy today but don’t know where to begin or are having some trouble getting going. There is a lot of information out there and a lot of it is complicated or contradictory. The first thing to know is that...

If you can find an exercise that you enjoy, you will feel great, you will stay healthy longer, and you will have fun doing it. Maybe it was something you used to do when you were younger but then it got away from you as you got busy with adult things or...

The kids over at Barstool like to say, Saturdays Are For the Boys. Remember that? They watch college football and party their brains out. It’s all sophomoric but it’s a good time. But we’re not sophomores any more. We’re not 20.  So how about, Weekends...