The power of positive thinking. You’ve heard the phrase and there’s nothing wrong with being positive and I really do encourage positivity. However… In some ways I’m the most negative person I know and you’d never know it. I’ve had friends ask me how I’m so happy all the time and I answer them “with [...]
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Locating Happiness
February 13th, 2012 
Danny “Do what makes you happy.” Sounds easy doesn’t it… except what is happiness? What does it actually mean? I recently struggled with this question as I realized that even though I know a lot of things that make me happy and a lot of things that don’t, I’m not entirely sure what “being happy” fundamentally [...]
Polyphasic Sleep Experiment: Day Zero
October 1st, 2011 Danny For years I’ve always wanted to try polyphasic sleeping. If you don’t know what it is, in a nutshell, it’s where you break up your sleep into smaller chunks and reduce the total amount of sleep you get. EDIT: My polyphasic experiment was a fiasco. I plan on trying it again in the future though. [...]
Failure is Always an Option
May 9th, 2011 Danny As a really big fan of Mythbusters, I’ve heard this line repeated many times. Whether their experiment succeeds or fails doesn’t matter, what matters is they get some kind of result. But I’m not talking science here, I’m talking about life. I’ve been pretty lucky for most of my life in that I’m pretty adept [...]
After the Great Deluge
April 28th, 2011 Danny One of my favourite books of all time is “A Canticle for Leibowitz”. Set 500 years after what is known as the great deluge of fire and destruction, after a nuclear holocaust. The remnants of the human race blame the scientists for creating horrific weapons and wipe them out, basically banning science. The Earth is a desert wasteland, plunged [...]
