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Dirtbag Rich by Blake Boles: A Book You'll Probably Like
How Dirtbag Rich looks in Santiago de Compostella You might be thinking to yourself: “Ditching your job and running off into the woods is self-indulgent and irresponsible. People shouldn’t do that (literally or figuratively).” The thought makes sense. Perhaps the most fundamental human emotional need is to feel valued. To be happy, you have to feel useful. And in order to feel useful, at a bare minimum you have to pull your own weight. You can’t just opt out and run away. T
Tim Mathis
5 min read
How to Live the Perfect Year
What would a perfect year include?
How do you live, remembering that you’re going to die, while also covering the bills and planning for the future?
Tim Mathis
9 min read
Life after the PCT: Thru-hiking was the best career decision I ever made.
10 years to the day before I wrote this, my wife Angel and I arrived at the Northern Terminus in Canada after hiking the PCT from Campo. 11 years ago I was 34 years old, stressed out but optimistic, and one and a half years into my career as a nurse. I’d retrained at midlife, sick of a decade in low-paid nonprofit work. I’d scored a good paying job at a prestigious hospital, and I liked it. Angel was also a nurse, but she’d been working full time in the field since she was
Tim Mathis
6 min read
Hate America and feel trapped? Have you considered trying 19th century philosophy?
It’s a core anxiety of our age. In our current global reality, you feel like bad things are happening and there’s nothing you can do about it…but also, you feel like you can’t just stand by and watch. You need to do something, you just don’t know what... This might be an unexpected plot twist, but hear me out. With all of the garbage going on, it’s a great time to familiarize yourself with the first truly American philosophical movement–the Transcendentalists.
Tim Mathis
20 min read
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