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An Adventure Sports take on Coronavirus Risk Assessment
How assessing, managing and taking risks in the outdoors informs my approach to pandemic Outdoor recreation comes with a certain and constantly variable inherent risks. If we wanted to make the safest possible choice, we’d stay home. Yet for many of us who are drawn...
Getting What I Came For
Amidst the go-go-go and the self-assumed pressure of perceived expectations and obligations, it is easy to forget the core questions of Who and Why. In the pursuit of "progress," I've spent much of the past year inside, checking the boxes for certification and working...
Learning
Finishing up an intense weeklong Swiftwater Rescue Instructor Training with Jim Coffey, an amazing multi-ninja of whitewater, rescue, instruction, with the rare, wonderful sort of hospitality that makes you feel more welcome even in your own backyard. I feel beyond...
What is it for?
Earlier this year, I brushed the dust off my pencil and started writing a blog, not knowing where it was going, and not needing to know either. The good thing about starting is there are no prerequisites of knowing: to start, we just start. Since then I’ve given a lot...
The Immensity of Being
My experience doesn’t fit into tidy self-improvement bylines. What I have to say can’t be neatly packaged into the clear cut, easy-to-digest format currently popular for writing about personal growth. And it is that variability and nuance that most informs my own...
Human Intelligence Isn’t About What You Think
The key to getting smarter is not what you think Modern neuroscience suggests that less than 5% of the information we process takes place north our jaw line. Think about that for a second. What does that mean for the other 95% of the information we take in and...
Recent
Getting SkunkedIn Blog, Learning, OutdoorsDecember 28, 2020
Why Productivity Systems are Built Like BurritosIn CoachingJune 3, 2020
“Do Not Fear Mistakes”In Blog, LearningApril 27, 2020
The Dark Side of CreativityIn Creativity, BlogApril 14, 2020
Perfection, What’s Good, and Being EnoughIn Blog, LearningApril 1, 2020
Featured Publications
- An Adventure Sports Take on Coronavirus Risk Assessment - NOLI
- Your Beatering is Not Cool - Blue Ridge Outdoors
Podcasts Appearances
- Vision Quests—with Ronit LeMon and Golder Goldstein | Heart-Shaped Eyes Podcast
- Ep 24: Article review 'Your Beatering is not cool' featuring Golder Goldstein | Questions You Never Thought to Ask Podcast
- Navigating the Unknown with Golder Goldstein | Wisdom Keeper Series, Episode 6.
Recent Blog Post
Why Productivity Systems are Built Like Burritos
Flexible, Minimalist Productivity Systems for People Who Don’t Like -but need!- Systems I have a slightly love-hate relationship with routines and systems. I need the structure, but I crave freshness and spontaneity, even if I’m not always sure...
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