Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

Happiness is overrated in the macro and underrated in the micro. Because on a major scale, there are so many things in this life more important than being happy. Happiness isn’t the target, it’s what we get for hitting it. Personally, my target it fulfillment. Which comes from making meaning in line with my values. If that is intentionally achieved, my incidental reward is happiness. On a minor scale,…

Anyone can be mindful if things are going well. Meditating on a mountaintop doesn’t take a ton of skill. The real question is, what is your default response to life’s difficult moments? Stoic philosophers promote a life in harmony within the universe, over which one has no direct control. Frankl later coined a term for this called response flexibility. His research found that between the stimulus and response, there…

Time can be the great thinner of things. Especially when it comes to our cherished habits and beliefs. Because the older we get, and the smaller our ego and pride get, the more we engage our capacity to outgrow what’s no longer working for us. And this process doesn’t have to be painstaking. It’s certainly a grieving process, as any change is. But the thinning is less about renouncing…

Sorkin’s monologue at the end of the most successful baseball movie in history makes a powerful point about evolution: Every time you start threatening the way that people do things, every time that happens, whether it’s a government, a way of doing business, whatever, the people who are holding the reins, they have their hands on the switch, they go batshit crazy. It’s tribalism at its most human. Because…

Have you ever had a conversation with a chronic interrupter? It’s infuriating. They insist on correcting your grammar and fact checking your arguments and poking holes in your stories. The problem is, they’re not exactly wrong, it’s just that the small amount their interruptions actually help is outweighed by the massive amount of energy they destroy. Congratulations on sticking a pin the inconsistencies of my story, asshole, but now…