Good Works Start Somewhere

Good Works Start Now When do you know it’s the right time to take a leap of faith? Maybe you’re supposed to jump when you catch the right break. “Life can be understood as a series of opportunities that are put before you, and they’re time-limited.” This is the fundamental principle Eric Schmidt would share with anyone in the early stages of their career. As Larry Page and Sergey Brin were interviewing candidates to become Google's new CEO, Schmidt wasn’t the first recruit. Plenty of others...

Does Your Team Tip The Scales? Dreams rarely come true because of the sheer willpower of one individual. Often, it’s the collective genius of the team that bends reality towards the dreamer’s whim. So, in a world where the odds are stacked against us and most ventures fail, the choice of who joins our team is one of the few places where we can tip the scales in our favor. David M. Rubenstein is a co-founder of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most successful private equity...

Billionaires Don't Drive Hoopties It’s probably time for me to get a new car. Baby’s not undrivable, but I have developed a reflex of praying every time I turn the ignition. From overheating on the way to the beach a few years ago to parts coming undone on the highway, I can admit that Baby has seen better days. I’ll get a new car eventually. Probably when the wheels fall off or the mechanic tells me it’s time to give it a rest. I’m not a billionaire though. A new car isn't something I want...

You're Worth Betting On Dreams aren’t made on a chess board but at a poker table. As Annie Duke explains in Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, understanding the difference between the two games is critical to knowing what strategies to pursue. “Chess contains no hidden information and very little luck. The pieces are all there for both players to see.” On the other hand, poker “is a game of incomplete information. It is a game of decision-making...

30 Lessons From 30 Years You don’t necessarily get wiser with age, but in honor of my 30th birthday, here are 30 lessons I’ve learned along the way. On God 1. When you’re struggling to hear God, focus on trying to see Him. 2. God is more like a VC than a bank, both in the relationship and in His return expectation. 3. You can do anything in this world, as you’re only bound by the laws of physics. And even when you reach that point, you’re only bound by the will of God. 4. All saints won’t be...

When They Call You a Cheater Isn’t it funny how we only call people “cheaters” after they win? We started hearing cries of banning the “tush push” after the Eagles had a 93% success rate in 2022. The NFL abolished the “tuck rule” after Tom Brady led the Patriots to a Super Bowl in the 2001-2002 season, following the infamous call in the Divisional Round against the Raiders. Drake only sued Kendrick Lamar after “Not Like Us” became the song of the summer. Everything is fair until the wrong...

Why So Serious? What is everything you would need to do, if your goal was to have as successful of a career as possible (however you define success)? Here's what my list initially looked like: Work really hard Find mentors and the right tribe Take a courageous step or two Manage my time efficiently Seek the right opportunities Always be learning Early mornings (cold plunge? TBD) It's not too far off from the list that I've used throughout my life. And I suspect yours is similar. But I was...

Are You Willing to Dream Again? If this fashion icon had quit dreaming when she turned 70, none of us would have known her name. For 70 years, this woman had been dreaming her whole life. At first, she dreamed out of necessity. Growing up in an orphanage after watching her mom die of tuberculosis, there was little inspiration around her that invigorated her imagination. But refusing to die in the poverty that surrounded her, she absorbed whatever knowledge she could find. A few romance novels...

What Are You Waiting on to Chase Your Dreams? David Senra, creator of Founders podcast, believes we’re living in an “epidemic” of people who don’t believe in themselves. We’ve never been more educated. It’s never been easier to access information or to make new contacts. What’s holding us back? Probably the same thing holding some of us back in dating. Logan Ury, Director of Relationship Science at Hinge and author of How to Not Die Alone, argues there’s three common dating archetypes that...

How to Get More of What Matters Most in 2025 Are we really measuring what matters most at the end of each year? I’m a self-improvement junkie, so I’ve read as many “Yearly Reviews” and “How to Make 2025 the Best Year of Life” posts as I can get my hands on. But they’re often missing the essence of why we’re making the changes in the first place. We are skipping James Clear’s “cardinal rule of behavior change” identified in his New York Times Bestseller Atomic Habits: “Make it satisfying.” Dr....