A 40-50 hour work week is ~50% of our waking hours. It’s why so many of us make our best friends and even meet our spouses at their office. In March/April 2020 though, COVID-19 threw this all on its head. Read more
Growing up I thought that all you needed to do to get cash was go to the bank and put your magic card into the machine. Thankfully after graduating with a finance degree, I learned there was a little more Read more
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 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 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, 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? 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 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 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 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, Read more