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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

I have been revisiting the ketogenic diet literature as I love getting back to basics in the summer. I notice that experts write a lot of words about how everything works, which is informative, but all the details can be overwhelming when all I want to...

Go back a couple thousand years and chances are your ancestors had never heard of much less eaten a mango unless of course they were born in Southeast Asia. For the majority of human evolution, our diets consisted of a small collection of foods that...

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...

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...