Hawaii is “awesome, fun and amazing” – When Words Fail

January 3, 2010

[Warning: the following is a free-write that I’m publishing as a sort of experiment. It was written just now as a stream of consciousness with complete disrespect to syntax and grammar. It’s fun. I hope that you find it readable despite the terrible sentence structure and run-ons.] I want to write about Hawaii – but [...]

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My First Video Editing Project – Nathan Monk at the Indianapolis Artsgarden Holiday Art Sale

December 14, 2009

On Friday I spent the day in Indianapolis with my good friend Nathan Monk (@nathanmonkart). We go way back (I’m talking grade school). Nathan is a husband, father, musician, and artist – and he was invited to display his work at the annual Indianapolis Artsgarden Holiday Art Sale sponsored by Be Indypendent and the Arts Council [...]

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Polyphasic Sleep Experiment – The Success, Conclusion, and Addiction

December 8, 2009

Well guys I can’t put it off any longer so I’ll just come right out and say it. The sleep experiment officially ended on Sunday November 29th – two weeks after it began. I’ve been avoiding this blog post because I am sad about ending the experiment and this seems to put a stamp of [...]

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I Alone am Responsible for my Life – A Brief Rant About Personal Development

November 30, 2009

I had half a blog post written about my sleep experiment when I found my mind wandering. ‘Come on brain, focus!’ I took a break for lunch but was still struggling to write about the experiment. I finally gave up, opened a new document, and started typing. This is what came out. I’m currently reading [...]

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[audio] Honest and Open Thoughts about Love, Competition, and 6 Months of Personal Growth

November 23, 2009

It recently occurred to me that right now in my life I am happier than I’ve ever been.  The question is, why? You should click the purple button to play. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] [pro tip for the multi-tasking type -  Let this play in the background by opening a new tab in your [...]

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Polyphasic Sleep Experiment – The Epic Napstake (nap + mistake)

November 21, 2009

This morning at 7am in the 110th hour of my polyphasic sleep experiment… tragedy struck. As you know, my sleep experiment involves sleeping for 20 minutes at a time every 4 hours around the clock. Tuesday was rough, Wednesday morning was killer, Thursday was an improvement and Friday was fantastic, but I’m afraid this morning [...]

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Polyphasic Sleep Experiment – Day Four

November 21, 2009

Friday was the best day of my polyphasic sleep experiment so far which, in summary, involves sleeping for 20 minutes every 4 hours around the clock (More on my experiment, day 1, day 2, day 3, and “why polyphasic sleep?“).  The most notable improvement was how I felt around 8am. As you know, this has [...]

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Polyphasic Sleep Experiment – Day Three

November 19, 2009

Today was outstanding. Sleep was dream-filled and restorative, mental clarity remained high, and my energy level was more consistent than yesterday. In this post I’ll share: An in-depth look at my note-taking throughout the day Unveil a dramatically improved chart for visualizing the experiment’s progress Tweaks that have helped Confess to cheating on the experiment’s [...]

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Why Polyphasic sleep? | A simple and compelling answer

November 18, 2009

I’m 54 hours into my exciting polyphasic sleep experiment. For the past two and half days I’ve been sleeping for 20 minutes every 4 hours around the clock. As you can imagine, I’m getting a lot of “but… why?” type questions in various forms. On my first blog post that kicked off the experiment I [...]

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Polyphasic Sleep Experiment – Day Two

November 18, 2009

It has now been 48 hours since I began my polyphasic sleep experiment (day zero, day one) – sleeping for 20 minutes every 4 hours around the clock – and I’ve found the last 24 hours were much tougher than the first 24. In fact, this morning around 8am the thought of quitting the experiment [...]

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