Essays

Talks

Podcasts, webinars, and conference talks.

Chemolog

Meditations while battling cancer, 2018.

Projects

Some things I believe

  • Pull over push. Enthusiasm matters a lot. Energy is the critical ingredient, both for your own productivity and to motivate teams.
  • Retirement and financial freedom are related but different. The dream is to have work and play converge. Childish curiosity and maturity are not in opposition!
  • Things that compound are virtuous. Momentum needs focus. Full immersion gets the flywheel revving. The week is probably the right atomic unit; a week is 2% of the year.
  • Speed matters. Artificial deadlines avoid extraneous nonsense. Bumping against reality is the best corrective to self-delusion. Do it often.
  • Ripple and learn, quickly. The world will give you signal. Take that signal. Ripple again with the new knowledge.
  • Do not shave spikes. Kids and adults spike in interesting ways. Nurture those, especially in children.
  • Sin is mostly opportunity cost. Our actions ripple through the universe. What kind of ripples are we putting out there?
  • The things that matter most come from immersion. To bring back fire you must have first gone to get it.
  • We are information. While alive, and more importantly after we’re gone. What kind of information would you like others to carry about you?
  • You’ll never feel ready to have kids. But your parents and grandparents were probably less ready than you. Just do it!
  • Rebel against bloat. Empower great individuals and smaller teams to do great work.
  • Earn your dopamine. Push for breakthroughs and challenges and hard work.
  • Create new blueprints. The laws of physics are the only limit. What invisible beliefs are holding you back?