Personal Reflections

CEO Mastermind

“Humans are good at relating ‘up’ where we assume the role of student and learn from a teacher, and humans are good at relating ‘down’ where we are the mentor and we seek out a mentee, but we are inexperienced at relating ‘across’ as peers.”

My Unexpected and Unlikely Journey to Uncharted

My unlikely journey to Uncharted and what it says about being open to serendipity

Airbnb Guests to Lifelong Friends

How Airbnb guests unexpectedly became lifelong friends

Copernican Revolution

I go about my days mostly ignoring the reality of outer space. But then something will happen that will create a little Copernican Revolution [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_Revolution] in my worldview, and I’ll spend 15 minutes losing my mind contemplating the expansiveness of outer space, the

Local Coffee Shop

There’s this coffee shop [http://riversandroadscoffee.com/#Why] one block from my house that’s owned by this couple, Desiree and Mike. They pull one of the best espresso shots outside of Australia, where my love of coffee bloomed into existence when I lived there in 2011. Anyway, as

Beginner's Terrain

Beginners are explorers of new, unclaimed terrain; experts are protectors of existing, claimed terrain.