After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Happiness has a very short half-life.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.