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3 Meditation Updates

About ten months in to meditating 20 minutes two days out of my five-day exercise cycle, a few updates. I last updated in November on my full lotus pose. Practice…

LeBron, Michael, and meditation

I did a three-day meditation retreat last month, meaning nearly no talking, reading, writing, internet, phone, etc for three days. The basic unit of meditation there is one hour sitting…

How meditation helps

Interruptions distract you from your thoughts. How often you get interrupted determines how complex and developed your thoughts can be. If someone interrupts you every five seconds it's hard to…

Goenka and 10-day meditation retreats

Two days ago a guy named Satya Narayan Goenka died. Who was Goenka and why should I care? First, I'll mention how I found out about him. I had no…

Jon Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness, meditation, and ordering and simplifying your life

The other day I was arguing with a friend. Maybe not a full argument, but a misunderstanding. During a break I got online and noticed a link to an interview…

Vipassana Meditation

A reader emailed me about mindfulness and self-awareness. I mentioned to him a meditation retreat I did a few years ago and found an old post I wrote about the…

The benefits of writing first thing in the morning

I should have tried years ago what I tried yesterday: to write first thing after waking up. For years, I've started nearly every day: wake up, make the bed, cross…

This week’s selected media, June 28, 2026: Plastic Inc., Free to Be You and Me, Psychedelics, Friedemann

This week I finished: Plastic Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil's Biggest Bet, by Beth Gardiner: I read this book for the book club of alumni…