I’ve been focusing a lot lately on time management strategies in order to most effectively* use each hour of each day. I’m always amazed how much I can accomplish in a day when I’m aware of where each of my hours is spent. I try to continually sharpen my techniques for maximizing productivity, without losing site…
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Posts by Vince
The Importance of Sleep
When we talk about our health we usually first think of diet and exercise; I couldn’t tell you the number of conversations I’ve had, articles I’ve read, and books I’ve read that advocate this-or-that regiment of eating and working out to achieve the ultimate level of health. There’s a lot to be said in both…
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Gear Review: Dr. Bronner’s Soap
Dr. Bronner’s soap is sort of a hackneyed piece of advice in the minimalist travel community because it’s one of those not-so-secret tips that everyone knows. But Dr. Bronner’s 18-in-1 All Purpose Pure Castile Soap is fantastic. It’s great for traveling because you can use it for everything: body, hair, clothing, etc. Some people even brush their teeth…
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Shanghai, China
Finishing in similar form as we started this great adventure (see our Zurich post), we managed to luck into quite a convenient layover on our way home to Los Angeles. We found a relatively cheap flight from Taipei to Los Angeles that just so happened to stop for 16 hours in Shanghai, where our good…
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Taipei, Taiwan
Throughout our travels, we’d been in clandestine communications[1] with our good friend Peter about potentially colliding in Taipei, where he might be able to finagle a well-timed business trip. Peter is a Seattle-based software magnate who somewhat frequently travels to Asia for work; he had good things to say about Taipei and high hopes for…
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In Defense of Street Food
Recently, a legislative motion was introduced in Los Angeles calling for an investigation into the possibility of legalizing and regulating street food vending. As it stands, tens of thousands of street food vendors in Los Angeles make their living in a half-criminalized legal limbo between indifference and enforcement. It’s an ineffective, unfair, and unsafe way to…
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Minimalism Quotes
A few quotes I’ve jotted down over the months, some of which relate to minimalism more than others. “I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.” -Henry David Thoreau “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to…
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Conscious Decisions for Unconscious Improvement
So much of the quality of our lives is directly tied to our general physical well-being: sleep, nutrition, exercise, mental & emotional health, etc. For the most part, though, these things affect us subconsciously. You don’t eat healthy and get a good 8-hour nights sleep and decide the next day, “Hey, I ate and slept…
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Cebu, Philippines
After much hullabaloo with tennis rackets and airport security, we made it to Cebu. While in Manila, we had heard from out friend Cat that Cebu was a beautiful place with beaches and islands that people tended to travel to when visiting the Philippines. At this point we were kind of winging it, so Cat’s…
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Gear Review: CaseCrown Hard Case for Kindle
Ladies and gentlemen, what you’ve all been waiting for… another Kindle case review!!! I know, I know, it’s been a while since Franklin’s smash-hit post about his Kindle KlearKase, and since rumor spread that my Kindle Keyboard 3G broke, the masses have been itching to find out what I would do next?! My Kindle broke…
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