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Frequent Flyer Challenge: Summer 2013 Edition (with Reader Stories!) 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Greetings, friends and readers! It’s time for another round of the infamous Frequent Flyer Challenge, where I show readers how to earn hundreds of thousands of miles and points that can be exchanged ...
Sometimes Things Take Longer than You Think 23 Aug 2013 | 08:58 am
I wrote in the original Brief Guide to World Domination manifesto: We overestimate what we can accomplish in a day, but underestimate what we can accomplish in a year. I continue to learn this lesso...
Three Types of Happiness: How Do You Choose? 19 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
In The Happiness Myth, Jennifer Michael Hecht defines three types of happiness: a moment of happiness, a good day, and a happy life. Hecht suggests that no further definition is needed because the ...
Welcome, New Readers! (And old readers too…) 16 Aug 2013 | 08:21 am
We’ve had a lot of new readers join recently, so I wanted to say hello (hi, everyone!) and explain more of what it’s about. This blog (AONC) started in 2008 along with my goal to visit every country ...
Life’s Priorities 12 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. ...
Quarterly: A Box of Surprises In the Mail 8 Aug 2013 | 05:33 pm
Want to receive fun surprises in the mail … four times a year? I thought so. Quarterly is a new subscription service that offers a surprise package each quarter from interesting people. I’m not sure ...
Writing and Speaking for Introverts 5 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
Greetings, fellow introverts. (Is that not you? Then you can safely skip this post. Everyone else, keep reading.) At every meetup I host, and most of the events I’m invited to speak at, I always men...
First Videos from #WDS2013 2 Aug 2013 | 08:31 am
The focus of WDS is on creating a strong in-person experience, so we don’t do any live-streaming. However, we also realize that many people who aren’t able to attend in Portland are interested in seei...
Escape to Reality 30 Jul 2013 | 06:55 am
Greetings from a tropical island in Southeast Asia. It’s a fairly typical island, as these things go. It took a while to make it here, with connecting flights through Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. It o...
On the Road: First Week in Asia 25 Jul 2013 | 03:51 pm
When I awoke in Kowloon harbor at 4am, I knew it was a good sign. The previous day I had flown 13 hours from San Francisco to Hong Kong with only a brief nap on the flight. Arriving at 8pm local time...
