Author: Steve Kamb

January 11, 2026

How to not suck at habit change: What’s different this time?

With it being early January, everybody is (hopefully) still motivated to make some positive improvement in their lives. This is great! I’ve been writing about goals, resolutions, change, and “New…
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January 7, 2026

Your Expectations Are Letting You Down (And What to do Differently)

The beginning of a new year is full of hope and optimism. Lots of people have bought fancy new journals, received a new exercise bike for Christmas, and have a…
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December 30, 2025

My Favorite Things of 2025 (And a Look to 2026)

Greetings from snowy Massachusetts! I’m up visiting my family for the holidays, cup of coffee in hand, and I’m reflecting on another interesting year that certainly didn’t go the way…
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December 22, 2025

The “Loneliness Epidemic” and the Mindset Shift that Changed my Social Life

There’s a running joke these days about socializing and canceling plans: It usually involves somebody who is happy when a friend or an event gets canceled at the last minute,…
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December 8, 2025

Who Casts the Deciding Vote In Your Life?

(I also recorded this essay over on my new YouTube channel) I’m a sucker for captivating historical fiction. And earlier this year, I read a damn good one: Maggie O’Farrell’s…
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November 30, 2025

How to Make Art (And Keep Making It)

My name is Steve and I am a people pleaser who makes stuff and shares it with the public. This is both fun (I can make friends quickly!) and a…
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November 17, 2025

Why You Should Stop Setting Goals and Create Experiments Instead

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of crossing paths with author and neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff when she visited Nashville to do her TEDx talk. Le Cunff is…
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October 27, 2025

Trying to Make Something Beautiful Out of Something Broken

(I tell this story with a fun video over my new YouTube channel, let me know what you think! The essay continues below) The year was 2015. It was the…
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October 21, 2025

Broken Refrigerators & the Fight for Simplicity

“You’ve got to be f***ing kidding me!” You might be wondering why I uttered a loud F-bomb while standing in my underwear in my kitchen at 6AM. It’s because technology…
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October 6, 2025

What’s the Lie You Tell Yourself? Here’s Mine:

What’s the lie you tell yourself? We all do it. The thing we say is important to us. Or why we’re doing something. But deep down, we know we’re not…
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