A guide on how to learn skills that will upgrade your life forever — Sometimes, you don’t need to be like the top one percent of this world. Being highly functioning is a great position to be in. It’s also more achievable. In this article, I’ll share 8 skills that most highly functioning people have and how to learn them. But, first off, what…

Your habits make you whatever you want (or don’t want) to be — Yesterday, I was reading Justin Cox’s book, Write Now. I’m not very far in it yet but I’m already liking the style and the worksheets. Anyway, in the second chapter, he writes: Developing a writing habit is essential to being a writer. Having written over 700 articles over the years…

You might end up with too many opportunities — Before the pandemic, I was a nomadic entrepreneur. I lived all around the world, learned new skills every month, and met incredible people. It was a great time. Then, I had my son near the beginning of the pandemic. I settled in Montreal, was isolated, and the only skill I…

It’s time to turn a blind eye to those things once and for all — Sometimes, we learn things that stay with us that are actually hurting our ability to do other things. Well, the same is true with learning. You learn things and pick up bad habits along the way that make it harder for you to accelerate your learning. After making skill learning…

A simple mindset shift to try to think differently — I don’t know about you, but my 2021 sucked. Basically, 100 percent of the goals I made in 2020 for 2021 fell through. It was the economy’s fault. It was my baby’s fault. Really, it was anything but my own fault. Everything was working against me in 2021. … I…

A high-impact, low-effort concept — Sometimes in life, you stumble a simple tool that changes your life forever. One such tool for me was the Wheel of Life. Essentially, it’s a spie chart (that’s not a typo) divided by 8 slices symbolizing 8 areas of your life you care about. It looks something like this: …

Hardships of being with a humanitarian worker — When Audrey, my wife, left the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to meet me in Colombia after being apart for six months, I never expected we’d have an argument almost immediately. Sitting on bar stools at a simply decorated Japanese restaurant, I remember her asking me about starting a family. …

A funky crew teaches kids math better than a teacher can — Full disclaimer: I worked and am still working on this game. I’m a senior backend engineer for the makers of Math Makers — Ululab *I’ll refer to Luma the llama as a “she” but in all honesty, no one really knows if she’s a female or a male… It started…

When I’m drunk, I get (overly?) philosophical — I don’t know about you, but I have multiple stages of drunkness. At stage one, after a beer or two, I’m just tired. At stage two, after a few more, I’m joyful. At stage three, the furthest I’ve been to, I get philosophical. Like, let’s-discover-the-meaning-of-life kind of philosophical. What follows…