Things aren't going exactly as planned. As I mentioned in my article about the problem with New Year's resolutions, my initial goal with this blog was to publish one post per week. But it's been 4 weeks. And I haven't published anything. I knew

Talk about a loaded question. But it's a question that we as parents have to ask ourselves because we're faced with two conflicting realities: Everyone tells us screens are bad for our kids.It is impossible to remove screens from our lives.I try

We're redoing all of our emails over at NativShark. All of them. Onboarding, account notifications, weekly content roundups — the works. From the time that we founded this company, I've written 1,070 emails. If we also add the 50-100 or so automated sequences I've

The other day, I was listening to an interview of Leo Babauta of zen habits. I used to closely follow his blog many years ago, so I was interested to see what he is up to these days. In that interview, I heard him

I used to think New Year's resolutions were dumb because they seemed like an excuse to put off what you should be doing now. I'll start eating healthy after I finish enjoying all these holiday treats.I'll begin writing my book two weeks from

"I can't learn anything by myself." Have you said or heard this before? Say you want to learn Korean. You buy a bunch of books, download a bunch of apps, then... well, you study at first. But after a while, it just kind of

Hey, I need you to make X. Could you get it back to me by this afternoon?Sorry, but no. Here is a metric for determining whether you're spending your time in the most effective way: Did someone else ask you to do this,

Our apartment in Tokyo has a shower room. It’s a room with both a shower and a bath: When I give our 18-month-old son a “bath,” what we actually do is sit on the floor of the shower room with a bunch of

It was 2014, and I was at a Starbucks inside of Terminal 21, a mall in the heart of Bangkok. I’d only been working for about 45 minutes, but already I felt exhausted. Working seemed to take a lot more effort when I

I don’t like exercising. I know what the fitness buff response to this is: It’s not that you don’t like exercising. You just haven’t found the right exercise for you.Please allow me to humbly disagree. Because I’ve tried

When it happened I was standing next to my locker. It was the second week of high school, and I wasn’t having a great time. My grandma had just died, I had just gotten braces, and my hairdresser messed up my haircut, so

A few years ago, a girl named Chiyako typed a short message into her phone, and it traveled from Singapore, all the way across the Pacific Ocean, to Oregon, where I was at the time. And it was perhaps the most flattering thing I’

In the second grade, my assistant art teacher was named Mrs. Adler, and she was a total bitch. I don’t remember specifically what she did to make us kids despise her so much. Suffice it to say that art class — which should be