I did this exercise last year and I found it both comforting and motivating as I reflected on what went right and what went wrong. So I’m at it again. This is one of the more personal things I write and I do spend a while creating it, so enjoy! Recap …

Everybody wants to catch the next big wave. We place a lot of value on being right about the future. Some of the highest-paid people are either good at predicting, building, or influencing the future. …

Vaccine mandates are coming. As the FDA inches towards full approval and ICU’s refill with COVID patients — employers, colleges, and parts of the gov’t are going to start requiring vaccination. Amongst the vaccine-hesitant people I’ve come across, there’s a strong sense of “freedom” behind their reasoning. Free to not…

We all have to make decisions. Some are small, like what to eat. Some are big, like where to live. Ultimately, we are responsible for choosing how to spend our limited time. To help make these decisions, and to avoid living life on auto-pilot — it’s good to clear on…

I was recently inspired by one of my favorite writers to think about what “ideas” have been the most impactful for me. Since writing is just a thinking exercise, I thought a breakdown of my own would help coalesce my personal philosophy and help expand others. Here are 8 ideas…

I’ve long been interested in the science of decision-making. We make hundreds of them every day, yet we often don’t think about the processes behind them. There are times when decisions feel so right, so clear that we don’t even have to think about them. …

I’ve been a bit of a pessimist for a while now. Even publicly. My argument then was that it was both an accurate and thus practical way to encounter the world. Basically, a lot of things are out of our control and can go wrong. Our belief that they won’t…

When I was 12, I joined my first travel soccer team. It was around that time that I started to take health and fitness seriously. In those 15 years since I’ve been educating and experimenting with how to be fit in the most efficient way. For most of those years…

I’ve never done one of these year-end reviews, but this is no normal year. My usual philosophy on this is that calendar time is a relatively recent human construct, and you can be reflective or set resolutions at any time. …