I’m a fan of Timothy Ferriss. He’s a radical self-experimenter with a sense of humor and a basher of popular assumptions. Some people can’t stand the guy but I think they must just be envious; who wouldn’t be? Regardless I wouldn’t have expected to come across Pottenger‘s cat study in his new book. Pottenger studied [...]
I will never run for office. I’m committee-averse. Besides old friends from high school and college would be delighted to share stories of, well, don’t they call it ‘boundary exploration’ when they talk about kids? But I’m growing in appreciation for small government that listens and makes good policy decisions. Yesterday at a conference called [...]
Philip Hoare has an obsession with whales. Thankfully he’s a writer, which means he has a depository for all the information he’s accumulated over years of research and hundreds of whale watches. He was interviewed recently in The Globe Ideas about his new book, “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea”. A [...]
This move to Boston means much back and forth, and uncertainty where home will be. I’ve had to let go of my Portland apartment and until I get financing for the new business, I’m floating. Short-term, I’ll be with family in Dover, who’ve offered to put me up but can’t have cats (asthma and cat [...]
