Author: Kevin Ruess

Kevin is passionate about personal and professional growth. He's spent the better part of the last decade creating apps that companies use every day to keep things running. Beyond running 2 businesses, he strives to make sure that his time is filled with things that excite and inspire him, including: studying the ancient philosophy of stoicism, open source software development, interview coaching, marketing, meditation, digital entrepreneurship, nomadic lifestyles, and blockchain (not in any specific order). He does his best to spend at least half his daylight hours with family and friends, enjoying the beauty of life and drinking a fair amount of good coffee.

Embracing True Wealth: A Stoic Approach to Money and Happiness

I’ve been thinking about my money situation a lot these days. Ten years ago it wasn’t money I wanted, but freedom. I quit my job and went off to Europe with my wife to live a life of adventure and indeed: freedom. Funny enough, I achieved all these goals: I have no boss, I can […]

What Stoic Fasting Can Teach us About Pleasure, Empathy, and Gratitude

A few weeks back I underwent my second fasting mimicking diet fast (learn about FMD) this year. During this time, I reduced my calories down to about 500 per day or less for 4 days. I tried to go 5 days, but ultimately gave in a day earlier. Fasting can be hard. That said, fasting […]

My Interview with don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

In 2013, I had the pleasure of “sitting down” with don Miguel Ruiz Jr., author of the 5 Levels of Attachment and a teacher of Toltec Wisdom, like his father, don Miguel Ruiz.

The Willingness to Be A Fool

So it hit me the other day, why don’t I seem to be accomplishing the things that I would like to be in life? Why do I get so close to the edge of the cliff from which I’m about to paraglide off of, then stop. Clearly, I’m ready. I’ve climbed my way to the […]

My Transparent Search for Inner Freedom

These days, the trend is for startup founders to document their company’s long and grueling road towards success, opening up their revenue numbers and their hearts to scrutiny. CafeTruth will be a similar endeavor. Here, I will do my best to write from the heart about what it means to wake up, in a spiritual […]