Work Ethic

Most of us are familiar with the feeling of succumbing to the day’s events, leaving us with few certainties: fatigue, discontent and an increasing to do list. Here are 4 valuable tips to help you to maintain your focus, discipline and help to boost your productivity. Honesty and Patience My primary tip, first…

Do we love the “bootstraps narrative,” or do we just worship wealth? — If you are unfamiliar with the HBO show Succession, which ends in about two weeks, it’s one of the better shows of the last few years. It’s essentially about the Murdoch family, here called the “Roy” family, and them fighting over what will happen when “Logan” (i.e. “Rupert”) dies. There’s…

You’re disposable. So is your stupid job. — TL;DR — Somewhere in the calculus of cutting costs in every single company, somewhere in there, every single employee is on the list. Somewhere. Your loyalty is misplaced. Your job is a transaction. Treat it as such. Most of us in the tech sector are likely to be salary-based employees¹…

Read carefully. This piece can bring a massive change in yourself. — You can’t change yourself if you don’t know what are the key things that are stopping you to become the new you. You can change yourself if you spend time reflecting on your life: the past failures, achievements, and the things that you’ve been ignoring for years. In this article…

#Revealing the truth read carefully. — Most people want to become disciplined because they have dreams. But they don’t understand getting disciplined is not about achieving dreams. It is a lifestyle. It’s not a tool to accomplish your daily tasks. Life without self-discipline becomes depressing, you feel no control over your emotions, and you start losing…

I may not recall all that I was taught at school, but I remember this: Mothers are our first teachers. However, we often tend to limit this idea of learning from our moms to primary education, when she would sit with us for our homework sessions or help us prepare…

Motivation lacks Discipline and therefore it almost never shows up!! We’ve all experienced the frustration of waiting for motivation to strike before embarking on our professional endeavors. We believe that motivation holds the key to our success, waiting for it to magically appear and propel us forward. But what if…

Though I still live paycheck to paycheck, I currently have the privilege of working from home and being able to afford a comfortable, spacious two-bedroom apartment in Northwestern Pennsylvania with my girlfriend. Though some months are tighter than others, I can splurge on a couple six-packs of beer, the occasional…

This week’s episode is a special one. I have a chat with my partner and CIO of the Interplay Family Office, Chis Zhang, to discuss China’s remarkable advancements over the past few decades and what its current status looks like. Chris is uniquely positioned to opine on this topic. He…