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How do you express your gratitude? One tip a colleague gave me when I was early in college was to aggressively send thank you notes when anything important is done. This reinforces behavior and helps people justify what they’ve done. This is the same reason why car salespeople are most effective when they remind peopleContinue reading “Expressive Gratitude + Relationship Building”

What are your daily habits? Every day, I try and complete a set of tasks that will eventually make me strong. First, I try and make sure I walk several miles. This is good for fortitude and mindfulness. I also try and drink a gallon of water, some caffeine, and relevant supplementation. I’m also reallyContinue reading “Production Hacking”

How important is spirituality in your life? I don’t believe in a God, but I believe in happenstance. I believe that life has a way of bringing about a sort of order, for better or worse. Sometimes resistance is futile, other times, pulling away from nature is for the better. I like Buddhism and TaoismContinue reading “Belonging in a Cosmic Reality”

How do you practice self-care? I’m the sort of person who likes to jump from lily pad to lily pad. I love to see where things go, and to explore a bunch of new things. One challenge with this is I push myself to and beyond my limits. This is both a major pro, andContinue reading “Enabling my toxic traits”

What’s your favorite thing about yourself? Having all the brilliance in the world doesn’t help if you don’t have the stubbornness to imprint your vision onto the world around you. Youth is a lot of things- recklessness, passion, naïveté, but also opportunity, dreams, and hope. The part of youth, particularly mine, that I find especiallyContinue reading “My inexhaustibility”

What are you passionate about? There’s this pervasive idea that when people get together as a government, problems get solved, and the world generally becomes a better place. The combination of incompetence, graft, and bureaucracy creates an unwinnable situation where several million dollars at a time are spent on things that don’t even solve theContinue reading “Social Entrepreneurship! Why it beats the alternatives”

What is your favorite season of year? Why? Weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men. The concept of a cycle being an important and clear concept is deeply rooted in the human experience. Summer is the good times that create weakness inContinue reading “Summer, the pinnacle of the year”

What’s the one luxury you can’t live without? I have a biting wit, and something I struggled with at a previous job was that I notice both people’s strengths and their weaknesses. I’ve learned from previous experience that people don’t take constructive criticism very well, despite their best efforts, even when the official policy saysContinue reading “The ability to speak my mind”

What are the most important things needed to live a good life? Knowing that I’m pushing myself to my limit is an incredibly motivating thought. I think everyone aspires for greatness, and having your efforts channeled into an empire, a legacy is essential to living a good life. Knowing that you’ve altered the fabric ofContinue reading “Down bad for fulfillment”

Who do you spend the most time with? I spend a lot of time in parallel with my mother. I recently moved back home, and I spend a lot of time hanging out with her. I like going on walks with her and telling her about the things I’m figuring out from a strategic communicationsContinue reading “She’s my bestie… she’s a real bad….”