Month: June 2017

  • Triathlons: Persevering in Gradual Change

    Triathlons: Persevering in Gradual Change

    This is a continuation of a post I published a year ago called : Triathlons: A story in gradual change After a restless nights sleep, I woke at 4:30 in the morning, ate a quick PB&J sandwich with a banana, and threw on some ridiculous looking compression shorts and a bike jersey. It was time to…

  • Decreasing Marginal Utility of Life Experience

    Decreasing Marginal Utility of Life Experience

    When it rains, it pours. When we have a lot of something, we tend value it less, especially any more quantities. If we are hungry and all we have is one orange, it’s pretty valuable.  The second orange is still valuable but less so.  The hundredth orange doesn’t have much extra value compared to the…