In the Company of Friends: What The Lord of the Rings Teaches Us About True Fellowship
Somewhere in the wild lands of Middle-earth, far from safe beds and second breakfasts, a small group sits around a…
Fuel, Flavor, and Fire: Why Every Savage Should Learn to Cook
You’ve just finished 12 rounds of bodyweight hell. Drenched in sweat. Your kettlebell is still rocking from that last set…
From Couch Potato to Savage: Your Road to 100 Unbroken Burpees
Welcome to the pain cave. The burpee is the unwanted guest of the fitness world, hated, feared, misunderstood—and yet, it…
Waking Up on the Silk Road: Gurdjieff’s Strange Map of the Soul
Imagine this: you’re sitting in a dim café somewhere along the Silk Road. Not the sanitized “Silk Road Experience” from…
Becoming a 46er: The Adirondack Rite of Passage
There are vacations, and then there are quests. Becoming an Adirondack 46er is the latter. It’s not a weekend retreat…
Mental Alchemy for Modern Life: How Hermetic Philosophy (and The Kybalion) Can Actually Help You Win
1. Welcome to the Occult… Sort Of You don’t have to wear robes or chant in Latin to practice Hermetic…
What Is the Lindy Effect?
The Lindy Effect is a theory that says that the longer something has been around, then the longer it will…
Is Virtue Its Own Reward?
Have you heard the phrase “virtue is its own reward” and intuitively knew it to be true but couldn’t put…
Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy – A Marketing Book, or a Study in Human Psychology?
Like most good marketing books, Phil Barden’s “Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy” is part marketing technique, and part…
Meditation Progress
Since the quarantine started (due to COVID-19), I’ve had a lot more free time. I don’t really like to sit…