Category: Essays
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The Best Career Advice I’ve Ever Heard: The Glass Cannon Strategy
(updated 9/8/25) In the summer of 2024, the United States Men’s Gymnastics team broke a long medal drought and won the bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris. The…
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I Got to Say Goodbye: Practical Musings on Mortality
On Friday August 15th, my grandma passed away peacefully in her sleep at the age of 95. I had driven to Massachusetts a few days earlier, and my father and…
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Keep Changing, You Just Get More Who You Really Are
“Well, it’s easy. I just threw away all the parts that weren’t ‘Steve.’” I had been sitting with my friend Josh Kaufman in Colorado. I was struggling to make progress…
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Why You NEED a Big Why
Entrepreneur Peter Barton was on top of the world. Until he wasn’t. Barton lived a life everybody dreamed of, took pretty damn good care of himself, and was a great…
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Mobsters, Knights, and Samurai, oh my! What’s YOUR Code?
In 2007, Italian police arrested Salvatore Lo Piccolo. This dude was an actual boss from the real life Sicilian Mafia. As they explored his house, they stumbled across what they…