What I Learned Not Eating for 60 Hours (48 Hour Fast Extended)

During lunch, while I was scarfing a delicious ham sandwich (bad jew, I know), my friend Charlie Hoehn wasn’t eating. I asked, "What’s up?". “Oh, I’m on a 7 day fast, ” Charlie said. “WTF. Fer reals,” I said. “Yea, while I was going through some things last year this was one of the few...

Kick ass using Positive Triggers

Here are some of my not so favorite quotes I’ve said recently: “The pills are on my table, guess I’ll take them in the morning. Gulp” “My running shoes and are in the middle of my hall-way. Bleh” "Argh. I have to go to the side room to work.” “Damn that happy picture of me...

36 ways to Deal with Depression

I was hanging with my uncle Kenny at a Mexican restaurant (obviously) a month ago in San Diego and we started talking about smoothie recipes. It dawned on me at that moment how grateful I was to be alive. There were so many more smoothie recipes to make the next day and I had something...

Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson)

Can I be real with you? Real real? (A note from Zuck) I’m TIRED of answering this question so I’d rather write it out and just point people to this post. Let me start in reverse... I can tell you every detail of the day I got fired aka “let go” aka “down-sized” aka “shit-canned.”...

The 18 Books That Changed My Life

A few months ago, I was drinking a Noah’s Mill whiskey (cute) with my good buddy Brian Balfour and talking about life... During the conversation, we got on the topic of books that changed our lives. I want to share them with you. (Click to share with others) I judge a book's success if a year...

Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink: Book Review

Since I got to Argentina I have been spending a fair amount of time reading about health, nutrition and dieting. I make smoothies almost every day, try to eat relatively healthy and run 3 times a week. I want to know more and be able to optimize my machine (aka my body). I heard about...