ILLUMINATION

I Woke Up at 4:30 AM Every Day for 30 Days — Here Is What Nobody Tells You

Here is what actually happened, from someone who did it & tracked everything.

10 of the Funniest Oscar Wilde Quotes

The man was a treasure trove of ironic comedy gold

How Averaging 15,000 Steps Per Day at Age 81 Affects My Life

That’s how I cope with the inevitable age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia).

5 Unexpected Benefits of Being a Reader

How reading changes the way you think and see things

How to grow an audience on Twitter “X” from 0 to 100K in 2024 (what they don’t tell you)

How to increase x followers organically in 9 easy steps

10 of Mark Twain’s Funniest Quotes

From the master of wit, irony and satire

How I Wrote 60 Books in 46 Years While Working Full Time

A Practical Blueprint for Aspiring Authors and Late Beginners

I Don’t Give a Damn About People Who Expect a Woman to Be Easy to Stand Beside

The Comfort of Others Cost Me Too Much

Sonia Refused to Give Up.

Let Me Tell You a Story About Struggle and Rising Again…

The Illusion of Understanding

Wittgenstein, Neuroscience, and Why Language Is Not Thought in Humans or AI

Bring Back the Boarding Houses

A clear solution to today’s problems

The Body Keeps the Ledger

What chronic financial stress does to human biology

The Mind That Won’t Quiet Down and the Thoughts That Stay When You Wish They Would Leave

Overthinking Is Not a Bad Habit — It Is an Unheard Mind Trying to Be Understood

Family Fun at Quinta da Regaleira: Sintra’s Hidden Gem

Experiences from our Family Holiday in Portugal

Do You Think That There Will Be a Replacement to Employer-Sponsored Healthcare?

Traditional Healthcare Benefits to Individual Coverage HRA

Let Me Enjoy Reading Without Being Judged For My Taste!

When what you read becomes a judgment on who you are

We Replaced Personality With “Content”

Somewhere along the way, being interesting became more important than being real

Quitting Junk food

Eating your own junk taste better

I’m giving up writing technical articles to make more money.

And not to mention that ChatGPT can probably write it better than me.

Saturday Night Live at the Village Cafe

French village life is boring, a California friend had warned. After 13 years, I know better

The “ Feynman Technique” for Readers: How to Read a Book Once and Teach It Like an Expert

Stop “collecting” books and start mastering them. Here is the 3-step mental model Richard Feynman used to dismantle complex ideas

Status Over Sanity

How Societal Expectations and Parental Guilt are Suffocating Today’s Generation.

The “Minimum Viable Health” Routine: 5 Tiny Habits That Quietly Transform Your Body

A simple, sustainable routine built on small habits — designed for real life, not ideal schedules.

Avoid Making Friends With A Miser Because —He Will Run Away From You When You Need Him Most:

Miserliness is a blameworthy characteristic and what disease can be worse than miserliness.

Stop Killing Your Cacao: The Science of Raw Cacao and the Ultimate Mineral Hack