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It was a cool September evening in 1940 when Witold Pilecki missed curfew. Expect this wasn’t a get-a-tongue-lashing-from-your-mother-and-be-grounded-for-two-weeks type of curfew.
This was Warsaw, Po...
I recently took a trip to Colorado with my family to celebrate my mom’s 60th birthday and my brother’s 30th. Every time I’m with these people, I’m reminded of what Warren Buffett calls the “ovar
...This is a photo of your boy at my first-ever public speaking gig at Wake Forest University in 2011.
It’s hard to describe how poorly it went.
I got paid $20 to
Last night, I was talking with my sister Jill, who has been a digital entrepreneur for more than a decade. Jill helps trainers and coaches build online businesses from scratch, and we were talking abo...
As I write this, I’m visiting my mom in North Carolina.
Isn’t she just lovely
Every time I visit Carolina, I have flashbacks to the most motivated, pr
...Whenever I speak at organizations, people nod along excitedly about the frameworks and tools I share to help them perform better at work.
But just as I'm starting to feel myself... just as I'm about ...
In 1935, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz developed a procedure called the leucotomy. I, like you, have no idea what a leucotomy is, so we’ll call it by its more infamous name: the lobo
...Lately, I’ve been challenging myself to engage in discussions and listen to people I disagree with. In a world full of echo chambers, fighting confirmation bias –  the tendency to seek out information...
Do you know why I love books? Because I can flex on non-readers readers and show how brilliant I am.Â
I kid.. I kid..
It's actually the opposite. It's because books often give me the words that I'm ...
My wife and I have a saying that we love and perpetually repeat to one another in tough, weird, or uncertain times.
"What's most unreasonable is the most memorable."Â
It's an idea from one of my fav...
Years ago, I read about this writer, Neil Paine, who set out to determine who the best coach in the NBA was. He used player performance metrics and raw talent evaluations to create an algorithm to pre...
“You know who you are when you become independent enough to believe your own thoughts, and become responsible for your own actions, and you not only believe what you want, but you live what you beli...