Very Fine Blog Posts Archives • Blake Boles dot com

Thoughts on AI and Education

🗓 April 21, 2023April 21, 2023

Mentoring Ben: Part 1

🗓 April 12, 2023April 15, 2023

2022 in Review

🗓 December 28, 2022December 29, 2022

How to Avoid Taking a Job You Hate

🗓 June 5, 2022August 6, 2022

You Don’t Have to Go to Work

🗓 April 13, 2022May 8, 2023

Does Unschooling Prepare Children for the World of Tomorrow?

🗓 January 3, 2022January 3, 2022

How I Intend to Live

🗓 December 20, 2021December 21, 2021

2021 in Review

🗓 December 14, 2021December 26, 2021

Partner Dance is Magic

🗓 December 6, 2021December 20, 2021

10 Tips for Becoming a Better Self-Directed Learner

🗓 July 18, 2021July 18, 2021

Around Lake Tahoe in 8 Days

🗓 June 23, 2021

On the Value of Personality Typing

🗓 February 7, 2021

What I’m Taking to South America

🗓 January 7, 2021January 7, 2021

2020 in Review

🗓 December 11, 2020December 13, 2020

Failure Résumé

🗓 October 5, 2020November 26, 2020

How I Wrote, Crowdfunded, and Independently Published a Book in 2020

🗓 July 30, 2020

Why are You Sending Your Kids Back to School?

🗓 July 2, 2020

How to Take a Self-Directed Pandemic Gap Year in 2020-21

🗓 May 10, 2020

The Bike Trip

🗓 April 13, 2020May 19, 2023

The Story of My New Book

🗓 January 30, 2020

2019 in Review

🗓 December 28, 2019

The Cherrypicking Caveat

🗓 December 20, 2019

On the Kerouacian Lifestyle

🗓 December 9, 2019

Trip Report: Nar Phu & Annapurna Circuit

🗓 November 1, 2019

Trip Report: Southern Sierra High Route

🗓 August 10, 2019

On Doing Half of a 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat

🗓 April 23, 2019

A Love Letter to my Readers

🗓 January 8, 2019

2018 in Review

🗓 November 29, 2018

In Praise of the Low-Income, High-Purpose, High-Freedom Career

🗓 October 28, 2018

Trip Report: The Sierra High Route (Part 2)

🗓 August 31, 2018

Trip Report: The Sierra High Route (Part 1)

🗓 August 27, 2018

Looking Back / Looking Forward

🗓 August 7, 2018

You Can’t Ruin Your Kids

🗓 May 4, 2018

Life Update / Spring 2018

🗓 March 17, 2018

Are Teenage Brains Really So Different?

🗓 February 8, 2018

2017 in Review

🗓 December 13, 2017

Tools for Building a Cheap and Meaningful Gap Year

🗓 November 24, 2017

How to Get Stuff Done as a Self-Directed Learner

🗓 October 12, 2017

Career Trajectory Update

🗓 September 7, 2017

What if It All Falls Apart?

🗓 July 12, 2017

Who I Want to Be at Age 35

🗓 April 2, 2017

My First Online Course: The Way of Adventure

🗓 March 18, 2017

2016 in Review

🗓 December 27, 2016

Book Review: The World Beyond Your Head

🗓 December 15, 2016

How to Take a Self-Directed Gap Year with Zero Starting Funds

🗓 October 31, 2016

Failure Survey, 2015-2016

🗓 October 29, 2016

Book Summary: Deep Work by Cal Newport

🗓 October 23, 2016

The Problems with the 10,000 Hour Rule

🗓 October 1, 2016

Do I Own My Business, or Does it Own Me?

🗓 September 9, 2016

Trip Report: Kings Canyon High Basin Route

🗓 August 31, 2016