Growing Our Garden

In late April, Brian, Kate, Danielle and I started our garden. We began with zero experience but were eager to learn. Our goal was to grow edible plants, meet interesting people, and learn as much as possible. There have been ups and downs, plants have yielded meals and other plants have died. Along the way, […]

The Happiness Paradox

Think you’ll be happy if you reach all your goals? Think again. It turns out that the kinds of goals we choose to pursue matter just as much, if not more than, whether or not we actually reach them! Studies show that pursuing wealth, power, popularity, validation and fame – what psychologists call extrinsic goals – leads to only […]

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Pipeline Winter 2013

Pipeline Winter 2013 from Eric Sterman on Vimeo. Photographer Eric Sterman attached a GoPro to a quadcopter drone to film surfers at the famous Pipeline break in Hawaii. This video is the breathtaking result. Hakuna Matata