The Tribe of The Fire

Jason’s Books

• The Barefoot Running Book (Penguin, 2012)
  • The second edition of my “how to run barefoot” book
• Never Wipe Your Ass With a Squirrel (Barefoot Running Press, 2013)
  • My beginner trail and ultramarathon book
• Must Have Been Another Earthquake, Kids (Barefoot Runnign Press, 2014)
  • The book documenting living in an RV with kids
• No Bone Zone (Barefoot Running Press, 2014)
  • My sex and relationship book about keeping the spark alive
• The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running and Ultramarathons (Skyhorse, 2014)
  • The tame version of Squirrel Wipe
• The Barefoot Running Book First Edition (Barefoot Running Press, 2010)
  • The “not so good but very rare” first book
• Correr descalzo. La ciencia de correr descalzo y con calzado minimalista (Paidotribo, 2014)
  • The Spanish version of The Barefoot Running Book

Relevant Blog Posts Written by Jason

Since about 2006, I have been a fairly prolific blogger. The real value of this hobby has been, at least semi-permanently, memorializing my thoughts, ideas, and wisdom I’ve learned on my parth to personal growth. Below are some select blog posts from a wide variety of my blogs which may be of interest to prosective or current Tribe members. Note some of the advice may be outdated due to my growth and evolution.

Tribes

• Tribes: Could This Be The Secret to Happiness and Life Fulfillment?
• The Sociopolitical Tribal Hypothesis: The Foundation of the Project
• Getting Your Needs Met: How Do You Find the Right People, and are Tribes the Answer?
• Choosing Your Family: A Discussion on Tribes and Voluntary Kin
• Our Tribe is Our Port: When the Sea is Angry, the Tribe Keeps Us Safe
• How We Use Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to Curate the Tribe
• Why We Need a Tribe, Part One – Why Your Life Sucks
• The BRUcrew Tribe: Fitness for Those That March to ther Beat of a Different Drum
• Make Your Own Utopia

Lifestyle

• Live a F@#$ing Awesome Life
• Life Lessons
• How to Live a Better Life
• Working to Become the Best Version of Yourself is Worth the Effort
• Four Steps to Living the Life You Want
• A Concise Guide to Getting What You Want Out Of Life
• The Art of Living: My Personal Experiences with Making Plans Versus Embracing Serendipity
• Stop Letting Dumb-Ass Excuses Keep You From Your Dreams
• Quitting Our Jobs and Following Our Dreams
• Don’t be Afraid of Setting Impossible Goals
• Building a Legacy Project: A Good Blueprint For A Life That Matters
• Happiness Isn’t the Goal
• Is Retirement Planning a Scam?
• Becoming the Best Man You Can Be: Step One – Finding Your Life Purpose
• The Importance of Curiosity
• The Importance of Courage
• We Build Our Own Cages
• Life Lessons, Revisited
• Dealing with the DreamCrushers
• How To Ask For What You Need
• Sleep and Light
• Alcohol and Sleep
• The Case for Sleeping Naked
• A “Fall Back Asleep” Hack
• Our Quality of Life Statements
• Diet – What You Eat Matters
• When Eating, Follow Your Cravings. Kinda. A Lesson on Willpower.
• Weight Loss: It’s Not Rocket Surgery
• Thoughts on the “Healthy at Any Size” Movement
• Why Does Attractiveness Matter?
• Lies We Tell Ourselves: Wealth, Status, and Power Make Females More Attractive
• Exercise
• Exercise Motivation: The Fickle Art of Persistence
• Exercise Basics: Where to Start
• The “Dadbod” is Bullshit
• Meditation
• Grooming and Hygiene
• You’re Competing Against You
• Disaster Preparedness
• Paying Off Debt
• I Can’t Do That! How Fear Keeps Us From Running Barefoot, Running Ultramarathons, and Leading A Boring Life
• How to Simplify Your Life and Not Live Like a Monk
• Preparedness Versus Adventure: An Inverse Relationship?
• Less is More
• The New Gift Economy
• Balancing Adventure and Employment
• Life Simplification
• Pareto Principle… Apply It Everywhere
• An Intolerance for Normal
• Excitement-Based Living and Other Lifestyle Ideas
• Three Tips to Enhancing Happiness
• Have Faith in Yourself: Four Easy Steps to Self-Reliance
• There’s Always An Alternate Route: Free Computers for School Save Your Tax Dollars
• Don’t Be a Lifestyle Masochist
• Materialism: The Shackles That Imprison Us
• Buy the Cheap Bike: A Lesson in Simplicity
• Living in a Nice Neighborhood
• Learning to Live: The BRUcrew Manifesto
• Embracing Poverty
• Your Perspective is Wrong: The Reason to Experience New Things
• Life Skill #1: Applying “Experiment of One” Globally
• Choosing Safe and Easy or Exciting and Difficult?
• Sharing Failure: Combating the “Perfect Life” Culture

Sex and Relationships

• What Do Men and Women Want in Relationships? It’s Not as Mysterious as We Think
• Ladder Theory: Why Some Men Get the Girl and Other Men Get Friendzoned
• Can’t Get That Guy to Commit? Here’s the Trick, Ladies
• Masculinity and Femininity Strengthens Our Relationships
• The Passion and Intimacy Paradox
• Why Do We Fall In Love?
• The Sexless Relationship: Dead Bedrooms Make Me Very, Very Sad
• Fix It or End It: The Only Two Options for Bad Relationships
• How We End Our Relationships
• Staying Together for the Kids: Some Considerations
• The Definitive Guide to Infidelity
• Men, Explained: A Post For My Female Readers
• Why Women Hate “Nice Guys”
• The Martyr Complex: The Poison That Kills Relationships
• What it Means to be a Man: Masculinity Traits that Matter
• When Men Fear Testosterone: The Sad Life Experience of Men Who Do Not Understand the Nature of Masculinity
• Women, Explained: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About How and Why Women Do What They Do
• Hacking Ovulation: Make Aunt Flow Your Ally, Men
• What Does It Mean To Be “Good At Sex?”
• How Women Choose Their Men and the Importance of First Impressions
• Why Do Women Hate Indecisive Men? A Discussion on Making the Inconsequential Decisions
• How Women Want to Be Treated
• Married Dudes: Improve Yourself to Improve Your Marriage
• Ladies, Don’t Fall for Nice Guys. There’s a Better Option
• We Don’t Know What We Want Until We Try It: The Importance of Experimentation
• Fourteen Practical Tips To Make Someone Fall In Love With You
• Sex and Emotional Bonding
• Partners With Mismatched Sex Drives
• How To Convince Your Partner to Be More Sexually Adventurous
• Overcoming Inhibitions and the Role of Morality: Learn to Loosen Up
• How to Give Yourself a Fetish: A Lesson in Classical Conditioning
• Mismatched Sex Drives: How to Fix the Problem
• Threesomes: How Do You Ask?
• Is My Partner Kinky? A Method to Assess Your Sexual Partner’s Willingness to Engage in Sexual Activities
• The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Shit Tests
• What’s the Deal with Monogamy?
• Penis too Small or too Big or too Average? Learn to Work With What You Have, Man.
• I Nag the Shit Out of My Husband
• How “The Pill” and Other Hormonal Birth Control Fucks Your Relationship
• “My Wife Won’t Do That, But She Did With Her Ex. Why?!?”
• How Older Women Can Compete With Younger Women: A Guide to Winning the Dating Wars

Gender Roles

• Reframing Gender: Masculinity and Femininity as a Personality Construct and the Gender Cup Model
• Gender Roles and Nature Versus Nurture: Is Gender Innate or a Social Construct?
• Reframing Gender: Masculinity and Femininity as a Personality Construct and the Gender Cup Model
• The Science and Logic Behind Our Philosophy: A Discussion on Feminism, Masculinity, and the Patriarchy
• “Big Boys Don’t Cry”: How and Why We Screw Up Male Emotional Expression
• Building Brotherhood Part One: The Trials and Tribulations of Forming a Gang
• The Greatest Failing of Feminism
• What Does the Perfect Body Really Like and Why Does it Matter?
• Mastering Masculine Body Language
• Why Do We Really Silence Women? A Discussion on the True Nature of Gender
• “The Call of the Wild” Masculinity Parable
• Why Feminists Want to Kill Masculinity
• Frenemies and Girl Power! The Fickle Nature of Female Kinship
• How Males View Female Friends
• How Females View Male Friends

Psychology and Society

• Signaling Theory: An Important Concept to Understand
• Putting the Foundation Ideas Together into a Plan: A Discussion on Decision Fatigue
• Willpower
• Trust Your Own Competency
• Evolutionary Mismatch Theory: You’re Not Mentally Ill
• Why Personality Assessment is Bullshit
• The Restraint Bias: We Don’t have As Much Control As We Think
• The Problem With “Rape Culture” and How to Actually Fix the Problem of Sexual Assault
• Sex, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Libido: A Man Camp Analysis. And a Rant Against Social Justice Warriors
• The Fickle Nature of Motivation: A Brain Chemistry Discussion
• Society Has a Love-Hate Relationship With Unconventional Thinking
• Don’t Let Fear Stop You
• Life is an Adventure! (written by Shelly)
• Five Tips To Get People To Like You
• Staying Motivated: Five Steps to Achieving Running Awesomeness
• Overcome Fear = Experience Cool Adventures
• The Difference Between Fear and Anxiety
• Don’t Let People Convince You You’re Not Good Enough
• Choosing “Impossible” Challenges
• The Secret to Success: Be Yourself
• Leave the Place Better Than It Was When You Arrived: A World-Changing Philosophy
• Are We Too Soft?
• Learning from Others
• Learning from Tragedy
• Make Your Life Better By Learning To Stand Up To Bullies
• Eliminating the Need for Validation
• Is Paranoia Ruining Your Life? Maybe GMOs are Delicious
• Sometimes You’re the Hammer; Sometimes You’re the Nail
• Losing Sucks, but it’s a Great Motivator

Parenting

• Childhood Sexual Abuse: Honest Shit Every Parent Needs to Know
• Where Do Kids Rank As A Priority?
• Pros and Cons of RV Living with Kids
• Parenting Philosophy: It Doesn’t Really Matter
• Being a Stay-At-Home Parent Sucks
• Unschooling: What Does it Mean?
• “Unorthodox” Parenting: Some Semi-Random Thoughts
• Bullying: Why We Do It and How To Really Fix the Problem
• Are Clean Freak Parents Committing Child Abuse?
• The Perfect School: How We Can Make Our Education System Relevant Again
• Free Range Kids? Is That Safe?

Assorted Issues

• The Political Correctness Disease: We’re Too Damn Nice
• Good Teachers Versus Bad Teachers
• The Free Exchange of Knowledge: How Our World Has Changed
• The Plight of the Serial Hobbyist
• The Art of Bagging Groceries
• Six Reasons You Shouldn’t be too Hard on Religious Folks

Running

• Why You Should Run Ultras
• A Few Commonly-Asked Questions About Ultramarathons
• Choosing an Ultramarathon: The Different Race Options
• Choosing an Ultramarathon: The Difference Between Roads and Trails
• Finding the Time to Train
• Let’s Start Training: The Art of Experimentation
• Listening to Your Body
• Training Run Conversations
• How to Get Rid of the Annoying Training Partner
• Training in Various Bodily States
• Managing Your Spouse, Kids, and Career
• Why do you run? Thoughts on the “Running Man” Theory.
• Why we run: A treatise on motivation
• Fundamental Ultrarunning Skills: The poo in the woods
• What Barefoot Running Has Taught Me About Life
• Goofy Ultra Training Ideas
• Run for Fun: A Running Plan for the Rest of Us
• “Play Is The Process. Fitness is the Product.” Embrace Play to Revolutionize Your Running, Then Your Life
• Running for Fun, to be Competitive, or for Fitness?
• The Allure of the 100 Miler: 12 Reasons it Should be on Your Bucket List
• What Would You Do If You Were Attacked on a Run?
• Ultrarunning: Ultimate Expression of Human Capacity, or Just a High Tolerance for Boredom?
• The Art of Ass-Oogling: An Essential Runner Skill

Fighting

• Ten Reasons You Need to Start Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
• Ways We Perceive Jiu Jitsu: Every Opponent is a Puzzle
• Jiu Jitsu and Play: What We Can Learn From Dogs
• The First Month: Damn, This is a Steep Learning Curve!
• Training with Your Significant Other
• Learning Jiu Jitsu Games: Embracing Limitations
• The Eight Points of Attack: A Conceptual Framework for Jiu Jitsu
• The Way We Teach and Learn Jiu Jitsu is Kinda Dumb
• Ideas that Help Us Become a Better Jiu Jitsu Player: Vgotsky’s Zones of Proximal Development
• Applying Marzano to Teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Identifying Similarities and Differences
• Applying Marzano to Teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Homework and Repetition
• Applying Marzano to Teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Nonlinguistic Representations
• Jiu Jitsu Beginner Tip #2: Use Imagery to Always Train
• Jiu Jitsu Beginner Tip #4: Learn Endurance by Relaxation and Kinetic Perception
• Build a Better Relationship by Learning to Fight. Literally
• Black Belts and Silver Buckles: Neither Will Make Your Problems Disappear

Careers

• Mastering Interviews
• Legacies: It’s Not the Institution, It’s the People
• The Ant and the Grasshopper: Why Both Approaches to Retirement are Dumb
• The Difference Between Leaders and Managers