Hacking Your Way to No Car in Atlanta
Culture, Life Hack, Lifestyle, Travel Richard Bakare Culture, Life Hack, Lifestyle, Travel Richard Bakare

Hacking Your Way to No Car in Atlanta

For this follow up post, I am sharing some ideas for getting to the same state that we are in. Or even down to just one car in a multi-person household. First off, there is no perfectly balanced equation for everyone. You will have to adjust the levers of what you are willing to pay on housing and other items in order to make living in Atlanta without a car workable. I sincerely hope these ideas help a lot of people get out of their cars. Atlanta's traffic situation is getting progressively worse. The downstream impacts of that congestion have not even fully materialized.

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Becoming Minimalist
Culture, Life Hack, Lifestyle Richard Bakare Culture, Life Hack, Lifestyle Richard Bakare

Becoming Minimalist

Minimalism represents time and balance for me. The time to do and experience all the things I want. Along with finding the discipline to not let what other people define as import dominate my time. For me, that means cutting out the "noise" of life more than getting rid of things. It requires being ok with earning less, having less, but definitely experiencing more.

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The Aggregation of Marginal Gains
Culture, Life Hack, Lifestyle, Technology Richard Bakare Culture, Life Hack, Lifestyle, Technology Richard Bakare

The Aggregation of Marginal Gains

In 2010 Dave Brailsford took over as the General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain's professional cycling team). To take the team to new heights, Brailsford introduced the team to a concept that he referred to as the "aggregation of marginal gains." The concept can be summed up as improving every facet of training by 1 percent so that collectively those marginal gains could equate to a larger performance improvement overall. At the 2012 Olympic Games the team dominated the competition by winning 70 percent of the gold medals available.

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