The 2023 Black History Month Theme is...

I wrote about this last year, but every Black History Month since 1928 has a theme set by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) - the group group founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson to continue the work of Black History Month. 2023'

Monday Motivation: 1.23.23

You don’t become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are. Outwork your self doubt. - Alex Hormozi There's a direct relationship between confidence and competence. The more competent you are, the

Monday Motivation: 1.16.23

Don't fall into physics envy, a term I got from Charlie Munger. This is when you over-index on precision in ways that may not be useful or true in real-life scenarios. In physics, it matters that pi = 3.1415926535 8979323846[...]. In most life situations, this type of precision

Accountability

I started out this year with some ambitious goals and I need your help to reach them. By stating them publicly and equipping those around me with accountability tools, it increases my odds of reaching them tenfold (non-scientific number). I can't let myself down, nor you. Here'

Monday Motivation: 1.9.23

Ideas are born from experiences. If you want better ideas, vary your experiences. When our experiences are narrow or routine, our ideas become stale and obvious. There are many ways to vary your experiences, but the technique I use most is adjacency. This is when you do something new that

Happy New Year! The Best of 2022

2022 has been all about giving myself grace. I can't do things in the same way as in previous years, but that's OK. In that spirit, I do want to share some things that I think are worth revisiting from 2022. The format is a bit

(Tuesday) Motivation: 12.27.22

Sometimes in life we feel like the court jester. We perpetually find ourselves in midst of a juggling act. Given that we must continuously toss things up in the air to handle everything that is required of us, a ball or two is inevitably going to fall at some point.

Presence Not Presents This Christmas

Life is not guaranteed. You feel that acutely when doctors avoid eye contact with you as they try to explain something using their most advanced medical terms because they can't bring themselves to say I don't know what's going to happen, it doesn'

Yeah, So ChatGPT is a Gamechanger

Note: This is a verbatim conversation that I had with ChatGPT. Me: In laymen's terms, what is ChatGPT? Response: ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses a language model called GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) to generate text. It is trained on a large dataset of human-generated text and is

Monday Motivation: 12.19.22

All of US history has occurred within a single Pluto orbit. from coolguides The more you know. Our relative time as a nation has been short on a cosmic level. For all of it's flaws, America is still learning, growing, and developing - we still have much to