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Exile Lifestyle, by Colin Wright - Part 2

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Page 2 of 168. August 4, 2016. I don’t have the reflexes for this. I find myself thinking this phrase for the fifth or sixth time as I stare at a pizza pan in the kitchen supplies aisle at Target. For the past seven years, I’ve had the luxury of a lifestyle with in-built limitations. If I acquire a possession that doesn’t fit in my bag, I’m forced to decide between getting rid of something that’s already in there, or crossing the treacherous threshold into dealing with checked luggage. It’s a system pred...

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The One

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July 16, 2015. The following essay is an excerpt from my new book,. Some Thoughts About Relationships. From a very young age, many of us are told stories about The One: a mystical person who is placed on this planet for us and us alone. It’s our hero’s journey to find this individual, wherever they may be. If pop culture is to be believed, there will be a series of comedic situations and dramatic adventures that lead up to our finding them. Why not just celebrate the wonderful coincidences and randomness...

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About | Exile Lifestyle

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I host a podcast called. Let’s Know Things. And a show called. I co-founded a publishing company called Asymmetrical Press. I travel full-time, moving to a new country every four months or so, my next home determined by the votes of my readers. I’m originally from the Bay Area in California, but spent most of my life in central Missouri; a fairly stark contrast, but one I feel richer for having experienced. Things escalated quickly and my branding studio was a professional success, which resulted in more...

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Iceberging

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July 10, 2015. We’re all, every one of us, multifaceted and infinitely complex creatures. We are impossible to fully understand and just as difficult to describe in any cohesive, coherent way. But we try. Oh how we try. We megaphone who we are through blog posts and tweets. We curate images that appeal to our sensibilities. We share news items and think-pieces that reflect our views on a given issue. It’s so easy these days to. Branding, at its best, is telling a true story in the right order and in the ...

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Scale

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July 30, 2015. Occasionally I’ll have someone tell me that they don’t want to learn more about a topic because that would kill the joy that topic brings them. They don’t want to know anything about biology, for instance, because doing so might reduce the wonder they experience when perusing fields of flowers. They just want to look at the colors and shapes, and smell the wonderful fragrances. The desire to not understand is a desire born of conservative thinking, which means safe and secure thinking....

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It's Easy

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July 20, 2015. It’s easy to be snarky and dismissive of ideas that don’t align with your own. It’s easy to preach to the choir, to rally the troops, to shout into an audience of people who already agree with you. To say all the things you know will reinforce their existing beliefs. Far more difficult is opening ourselves up to ideas that evolved outside familiar ecosystems. Ideas grown within different societies and different cultures. Ideas that are the result of foreign life experiences. Because althou...

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Kindness and Reason

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March 30, 2015. This essay originally appeared in my free newsletter. When we ask someone to be reasonable, what we’re really asking is for them to see things our way. To put on our shoes and walk around a little. Certainly once they’ve seen our point of view they’ll rethink their position on the matter in question. I would argue that this misses the point of reason, and is even counter to it. While it’s possible to come up with a ‘best fit’ system of living, that system will not necess...Similarly, rati...

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Stuff-Focus

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June 10, 2015. A common misperception about minimalism and simplicity is that if you have nothing, you’re living in accordance with these concepts. “I’ve never had much money,” some might say, “so I guess I’ve been a minimalist my whole life.”. For others, though, owning so little will be a true negative, not a positive. If having a full library of hardcover books is what sets you aflame with happiness and fulfillment, it doesn’t make much sense to live out of a backpack. Second, this stuff-focus is ofte...

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Thirty

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April 16, 2015. Today is my 30th birthday. It’s a day that pop culture tells me I should fear and worry over. A day I haven’t really thought about these last six years, focused as I’ve been on wringing every last drop from my 20s. It’s a day that, though no different from any other day, marks a psychological occasion for many people. I wrote a book entitled. A few years ago, and followed it up with a book called. On where I would move every four months or so. With a couple of like-minded fellows. Who ove...

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Writing – Jennifer Vandenberg

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Paste your Google Webmaster Tools verification code here. Too Dark to Read. The Witches of Harpersfleece. The In Stone Series. August 19, 2016. August 19, 2016. When it feels easy, challenge yourself and see how you can improve your craft. When it feels like you’re banging your head against that rock, you also need to improve your craft. Both the smooth sailing and the rock are a signal that you can learn more. October 4, 2015. It’s October – time for challenges and streaks. Spooky! No, I don’t mea...