Author: Geoffrey Hale

  • The 2 Intentions of Movement and Change

    We tend to move with one of two intentions, often with a situational preference to one or the other. When things get bad, we seek to eradicate the situation, wether by fight or flight or some creative alternative. In isolated cases, fight or flight is fine, but in the vast majority of persistent challenges it…

  • Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

    Chicken Philosophy Plato: For the greater good. Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

  • 5 Health & Fitness Fads You Should Avoid

    “Just take two pills in the morning and the pounds will melt away!” How many times have we heard a promise like this? And how many times, even if you’ve thought that there was no way that’s true, have we let our minds wonder if this is the product that really does work? Here are…

  • How To Live In Your Car

    For the past couple of years I’ve been considering living out of my car. Sometimes it takes me a while to come around to some of my crazier ideas, but this one’s finally being taken seriously. I’ve racked my brain and taken notes each night before I fall asleep and recently contacted my friend Glenn…

  • Vladimir Putin Speech at the Munich Press Conference in Germany

    I must admit, international politics is not my strong point. For many reasons, I expect the daunting web of world economics, politics and law will be my final intellectual frontier. It feels only natural to have begun with the simplicity of math and science and to have progressed through interests in physics and chemistry and…

  • Set Goals to Beat Exhaustion

    You’re exhausted. You’re tired of it, all of it. You just want to sleep all day and maybe take a bath. You can’t go on like this. There’s just too much on your plate. How is signing up for more work going to help you beat exhaustion?