Life Lessons

Think of it less as an interview and more as a dance where you are trying to move together in perfect rhythm. — I’m going to ask you to play a game of human observation with me. I’m going to describe two people to you, and you are going to guess which one has a harder time developing romantic relationships. Ready? Meet person 1 — Cooper is athletic and confident. He holds a…

Warren Buffett, born on August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska, is one of the most successful investors and business magnates in history. Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Buffett’s investment prowess and adherence to a value-based investment philosophy have helped him amass a fortune of over $100 billion. His story…

Today when leaving the home for the office, I said, “this day would just be over in a moment”. And that’s how it should have been. I had a meeting with one of the large customers for Google Cloud, a product presentation to 100+ customer engineers, and a shift to…

Twelve powerful principles from the Roman Emperor’s journal — Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is perhaps the most popular and accessible of the ancient Stoic texts we have today. Ryan Holiday of The Daily Stoic has read the book more than 100 times. The founder of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, read it in high school and was hooked. The 42nd…

So, have you gotten that message yet? — Getting older has been a trip, man. I just turned 35, and my mid-thirties are some of my favorite years so far. While my twenties were filled with chaos and open ends, my thirties have basically tied up most of the crazy things that happened. To a point, it feels…

And thriving from it. — I hated swimming for much of my life. I’d fallen into it because my parents were both good swimmers and had met on the swim team. So I began taking lessons at an early age. Eventually, the sport stopped being cute — and just became grueling and boring. While other…

The Journey of Self-Discovery — Have you ever seen the movie Never Been Kissed that stars Drew Barrymore? We see Josie “Grossie” Gellar as the movie flashes back to her awkward teenage years in high school in which she was bullied; fast forward to the present and she is still somewhat an awkward adult, a…