About

My goal is to help growth-driven individuals find their own path to personal transformation through self-experimentation.

I‘m Derek Ralston, an agile coach by day and personal transformation expert by night. I find that there’s a bridge between my work and personal life, in terms of conducting experiments and bringing a mindset of continuous improvement. My approach to learning is to dive into a topic deeply by designing my own self-experiments. Afterwards, I reflect on the experience and through this process, make new discoveries.

I’m the author of three personal transformation books, one of which became top in its category on Amazon. Most recently, I’m the author of Transformational Fasting: Reconnect with Yourself, Get Healthy, and Find Your Purpose.

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Best blog posts:

• Transformational Fasting: Reconnect with Yourself, Get Healthy, and Find Your Purpose
• How to Quantify Yourself
• How Walking 500 miles Across Spain Changed Me
• So I Tried a Treadmill Desk
• Three WFH Practices for Managing Stress
• Build a Writing Habit that Sticks

More of my work:

• I’ve written three personal transformation books (one became top in its category on Amazon)
• Sharing local San Francisco restaurant tips, see my Yelp Elite profile
• Matcha green tea tasting at Matcha Reviews
• Personal development blog (retired in 2013) at Life Evolver
• My work has been featured on WriteToDone, StepCase Lifehack and BootsnAll
• Agile software development thought leadership at PagerDuty blog

Random things I’ve done:

• Walked 500 miles across Northern Spain
• Fit everything I owned into a carry-on bag for an 8-month trip to South America
• Developed the first videogame cheats search engine
• Created popular online videogame magazine at the age of 13
• Finished the New York City Marathon

Stay in touch:

You can reach me here or follow me on Facebook and Twitter.