How 2020 Changed My Spending Habits
2020 was tough for a lot of us. For me, it meant getting laid off, trying to maintain two mortgages, while trying to support my …
How Commitments Can Help Your Career
In his book Born For This, the author Chris Guillebeau talks about a strategy to develop a plan to quit his job in one year — and …
How to Be a More Critical Reader
Essential Habits is a book borne out of my interest in getting at specific takeaways from books. A few years ago, my very smart friend …
How to Become an Expert — Lessons Learned From My Time in Management Consulting
We have an inside joke in management consulting: ace a project and you immediately become the expert on that subject, even if that was the …
Six Things I Learned from Naval Ravikant
Advice on building wealth, becoming a better thinker, happiness, health, and philosophy Do you know those questions where if you could have dinner with anyone …
The Emotional Audit and how it can Help you Enrich your Life
How to enrich your life by reviewing and expanding your emotional range Recently, I was reading Giant Steps by Anthony Robbins, and there was an interesting exercise …
Six powerful strategies to generate new ideas
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas — Linus Pauling Something that I have noticed while I …
Horseshoes and hand grenades as an approach to starting a career
One of my elementary school teachers often said that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. He said this whenever a student would answer …
What the heck is an anti-library and why would you want one?
I was first introduced to the anti-library through Nassim Taleb’s work, the Black Swan. In fact, he was introduced to the concept through writer Umberto …
A big mistake at work and the lessons I learned
Back in university, shortly after graduating, I worked for a summer as an orientations coordinator. Orientations, for a lot of universities, is huge and is …