Leaders at work make or break an experience. Great leaders can inspire people to do incredible things, while poor leaders can lead to people counting seconds until work is done or even causing people to give up and quit. While we’ve all had a few leaders who sucked, here’s a Read more
Building off one of the best books I’ve ever read – The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, here are some personal rules for building wealth. Note these rules aren’t perfect and if you create your own, they won’t be either. What you want to strive for is repeatable rules Read more
Senior year of high school, I didn’t want to apply to Notre Dame. My older brother (attending his sophomore year) convinced me to apply, and 10 years later I’m a proud alumnus. In honor of college football season kicking off, I wanted to walk through a few reasons why I Read more
After college graduation, my parents’ assured me I had a “good job”, but I felt sick to my stomach. What if three months in I hated my job or worse; what if it led to a dead-end in my career? Since then, I’ve switched jobs inside the same company a Read more
Yesterday I told my friend “I think in bullet points”. Initially it was a joke, but the more I dwell on it, the truer it rings because: Short bullets are easy for people to read Bullets’ spoken parallel (two to three short sentences) is similarly easy to understand To write Read more
Until college, I was deathly afraid to say “I love you” to anyone other than my Mom. These three words mean so much, yet we often don’t share our warm feelings with those around us. In my case, my hesitance was a fear of being called a loser, a girl, Read more
Wilt Chamberlain was one of the best basketball players in history, yet he actively chose not to be better. Why? As Malcom Gladwell described in an excellent podcast, Chamberlain chose to limit himself to shooting free-throws via the less efficient overhand method as switching to underhand free-throws would change his Read more
CoVID-19 made me a better listener. Initially this wasn’t the case, as transitioning to working remotely through zoom brought a wave of new distractions. I found myself struggling to pay attention to critical conversations as any time the conversation lulled, the whole world (work and otherwise) was only one click Read more
Our biggest goals can be daunting because of the time, effort, or money to accomplish. Instead of using brute force motivation, I focus on breaking problems down into easier sub-goals. I refer to this as chunking after its analog in psychology and my approach has five parts Identify my long-term Read more
The best pizza I’ve ever eaten is a 5 min walk from my apartment, but my wife and I chose to rarely go there. While this may sound like a mistake, it’s a deliberate decision we made because going less often actually makes us appreciate the experience even more. This Read more