Oliver Sacks on Gratitude and Death

Adam Personal Improvement

I’m a great fan of Oliver Sacks. If you don’t know him, he’s probably the most famous neurologist alive and written dozens of amazing books. From NY Mag: “Sacks has now spent 50 years attending to patients damaged in ways that make it difficult for others, even doctors, to acknowledge their full personhood—those with Tourette’s, Asperger’s, the deaf, the blind, the …

21 year old Millionaire Athlete Lives in his VW Van

Adam Personal Improvement, Travel

21 year old millionaire doesn’t blow his money. Instead he spends his time enjoying the great outdoors, traveling, and having authentic experiences up and down the coast, living in his awesome van. You don’t hear that headline every day. Daniel Morris snagged a $2M singing bonus (don’t we all wish!) and has chosen to live in 1978 Volkswagon, doing what …

2015 Goals

Adam My Life, Personal Finance, Personal Improvement

Financial Goals Max out my 401k with $18,000. I’ve never done this before, but we’re shooting for the full $18,000 this year. There was no real reason not to accomplish this in 2014. It’s not like I wasn’t saving, we hit somewhere around 50%, but some of that was in company stock, some in savings account, some to an IRA. …

My favorite Podcasts

Adam Personal Improvement

I love podcasts. I sit in a cubicle 50 hours a week, so to keep my sanity I listen to a massive amount of podcasts. It’s not something I can manage to do when I’m working on things that require a lot of mental horsepower, but anything repetitive and I tune in. I also tend to listen to them when …