Student of Life
As you may have noticed the blog has been relatively quiet the month of September, but my life has been anything but. I have a lot I’d like share and look forward to writing some more comprehensive life updates and keeping in touch with everyone who has been in and out of my life. But [...]
Most of this blog has been about broad intellectual topics, but if you’ll forgive some self-indulgence, I’m going to begin to share some more personal anecdotes. I just finished a post on passion and what I advocate for how to find it, and now I’m going to give you a small glimpse into some of the [...]
Long awaited, I finally have the video after wrangling with file format difficulties, technical workarounds and trips that left my time in front of the computer fragmented. This is only my 2nd or 3rd public speech I’ve given, excluding participation on panels, but I hope to do more in the future. Unfortunately due to time [...]
A story from my childhood on the importance of intrinsic motivation for learning. On Sunday we had a family party at my house and invited many of the people who were important during the early years of my family. The occasion was a mix of both my parents 25th anniversary and my twin sister and [...]
I’m going to experiment in the next two weeks posting a lot more off the cuff thoughts. Honestly I don’t have an hour or two to set aside for blog writing right now. I’m working really hard on a lot of projects that require a lot of focused energy. I do end up doing a [...]
Most personal development is crap. I’ve heard 95% of the industry is crap. I think that is a good number. But it’s such a big pie that the other 5% is huge and there are a lot of valuable ideas out there. Even within the 5% you can easily waste your time, if you read [...]
Seniors in high school everywhere around the country have been humming in anticipation. In the last week college admission committees have sent out their final decisions to this year’s pool of applicants. The preconditions of where we will come to shape our future selves hinged on their decisions. This momentous week seemed like a good [...]
It’s really bothering me lately that I don’t have time to write at all. I’ve been piling up plenty of ideas and have about 150 stashed away that I’d like to write about sometime. The sad thing is I rarely have the time to sit down and flesh out my ideas. Rather than not posting [...]
