Apr 24, 2022Wishing Away The Present MomentWhy do so many of us expect happiness to come at some future date? I can remember being so excited about turning 10 years old — it seemed like such a milestone to my kid brain. Then it was starting junior high-school. Next, being a high-school freshman. As many of…Memento Mori9 min readMemento Mori9 min read
Mar 22, 2022What We Can Learn From the African Philosophy of UbuntuEvery week I share five YouTube videos with my team at work. Content ranges from self improvement, health, communication, business, science, philosophy, or anything else that can spark an interesting conversation. On Tuesday, I post my favorite video from the past week in the hope that it will make you…Ubuntu1 min readUbuntu1 min read
Mar 9, 2022How To Be An Interesting PersonEvery week I share five YouTube videos with my team at work. Content ranges from self improvement, health, communication, business, science, philosophy, or anything else that can spark an interesting conversation. Each Tuesday, I post my favorite video from the past week in the hope that it will make you…Being Yourself1 min readBeing Yourself1 min read
Mar 1, 2022The Art of Listening.Every week I share five YouTube videos with my team at work. Content ranges from self improvement, health, communication, business, science, philosophy, or anything else that can spark an interesting conversation. Each Tuesday, I post my favorite video from the past week in the hope that it will make you…Listening1 min readListening1 min read
Feb 23, 2022Jocko Willink Calls Out “Over-Reacting” and The Behavior That Spreads Hysteria — YouTube TuesdayEvery week I share five YouTube videos with my team at work. Content ranges from self improvement, health, communication, business, science, philosophy, or anything else that can spark an interesting conversation. Each Tuesday, I post my favorite video from the past week in the hope that it will make you…Self Improvement1 min readSelf Improvement1 min read
Feb 20, 2022Hack Success by Building SystemsIn 2019, the fitness tracking app Strava documented and studied over 800 million user activities and found that most people quit their New Year’s fitness resolutions by January 19th. January 19th has thus been dubbed “quitters day.” In an article for inc.com, Marcel Schwantes writes that 91% of us won’t…Systems Thinking15 min readSystems Thinking15 min read
Feb 15, 2022YouTube TuesdayEvery week I share five YouTube videos with my team at work. Content ranges from self improvement, health, communication, business, science, philosophy, or anything else that can spark an interesting conversation. Each Tuesday, I share my favorite video from the past week in the hope that it will make you…Stoicism2 min readStoicism2 min read
Feb 9, 2022YouTube TuesdayEvery week I share five YouTube videos with my team at work. Content ranges from self improvement, health, communication, business, science, philosophy, or anything else that can spark an interesting conversation. Each Tuesday, I share my favorite video from the past week in the hope that it will make you…Mindfulness1 min readMindfulness1 min read
Jan 23, 20225 Questions I Always Ask In An InterviewWhen interviewing potential employees I want to get much deeper than previous job experience and strengths and weaknesses. Over the past five years I have constantly modified the questions I ask and also how I ask them. Listening to Tim Ferriss discuss interview questions for his podcast has helped me…Improvement9 min readImprovement9 min read
Jan 13, 2022Moral Licensing: When Doing Good Leads To Doing BadHave you ever eaten a bunch of ice cream and said it’s okay because you worked out that day? Or have you ever been rude to someone and justified it by thinking that you are actually a good person? I just listened to the first episode of the podcast Revisionist…Moral Licensing8 min readMoral Licensing8 min read
