wellbeing

1. 27 December 2024

   Mood tracking: finding happiness in the data

   I've been experimenting with mood-tracking apps for most of my adult life with mixed results — until recently. Two apps, Daylio and How We Feel, have given me genuine insight into my emotional pattern…

2. 26 July 2019

   Thought(crime)s on parenting

   I love my kids. I adore them. I wouldn't give them back. But many times, I don't enjoy the act of parenting — and it feels controversial to say so, even with all that preamble. Here are some honest th…

3. 5 March 2016

   Feet, forks, and fingers

   Many of the biggest risks we face aren't financial. Health is chief among them. Most premature death traces back to just a few behaviours: what we do with our feet (physical activity), our forks (diet…

4. 18 September 2015

   Ubuntu. An ode to friendship

   Success in life, to me, isn't about accomplishments — it's about the relationships we cultivate with the people we care about. The South African word ubuntu captures it: I am because you are. If your…

5. 15 September 2015

   Scattered thoughts on nutrition

   Some scattered thoughts on nutrition after digging into the better resources. Temporary diets are a terrible idea — if you want to be healthy, it's a long game, not a stop-gap. The Western diet has re…

6. 30 July 2015

   “Very happy people”

   From a 2002 paper by Ed Diener and Martin Seligman, two fathers of modern happiness research: the very happy people were highly social, with stronger romantic and other social relationships than less…