Philosophy

Lets start somewhere. 11,000 years ago. The Ice Age has long gone, humans have started hunting and gathering in groups. We have not yet invented agriculture. To the West, the first stone walls of Jericho are being stacked, and in Turkey, the hunters of Göbekli Tepe are carving massive predatory totems (Schmidt, 2000).

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”

– Chuck Palahniuk

Perhaps the hardest thing I have ever done is quit sugar.

I won’t pull you into a drawn-out hospitalization sob story. Here’s the blunt version: a lower spine injury put me flat on my back. It took a couple of steroid shots just to get me standing again.

Like many of us, I had lived a life of belligerence – opinionated, intoxicated, hustled and travelled. I never sat home for a minute. The only time I would find myself at home is to sleep at night. Just couple of weeks before covid hit the world, I was doing a road trip across the winter of Iceland braving snow storms and staying in beautiful scenic Airbnb’s in temperatures way below zero throughout my two week trip.