Very Fine Blog Posts Archives • Blake Boles dot com

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, 2020

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

Announcing: Off-Trail Learning & How to Live Nowhere

📅 August 2, 2016

How to Be Interesting

📅 April 24, 2016

Is Following Your Passion a Bad Idea?

📅 March 19, 2016

Pay Yourself in Time, Not Money

📅 January 31, 2016

What I’m Doing in Guatemala

📅 January 7, 2016

2015 in Review

📅 December 30, 2015

What I’ve Learned (and Relearned) About Myself This Year

📅 December 18, 2015

Success Story

📅 November 8, 2015

New Unschool Adventures for 2016/2017

📅 November 6, 2015

Teens: How to Write Two Important E-mails

📅 November 1, 2015

Freedom Businesses

📅 October 30, 2015

Andy Weir on Self-Publishing

📅 October 21, 2015