On this mid-May Friday, students are graduating, commencement speeches are being recorded and a new set of the work-force leaves the protected halls of academia to be free to embrace the realities of life. Like a rescued sea-lion being released back into the ocean… Hopefully it doesn’t go like this: But often there are […]
Today I have a special guest on the show, Shutong. He’s an MBA student with me here at Columbia with a finance and PE background. We explore the role and conversations happening (and not happening) around pressure, failure, and stress in both the startup and financial industries. Rocked by a recent life tragedy with a […]
You have a hammer of purpose striking a nail of a particular goal to build onto your house of emotional memories that is your life…but why am I even doing so? To understand who one is often takes decades–or a lifetime–to realize, but the process begins shortly after birth. From the moment we can see, […]
**This is a heavy video-embedded post, so to get the most out of it, please head to the website if reading this from the email. There is an overwhelming desire for most people to get the most out of life. But what does that even mean? Let’s break it down a bit. This model is […]
Compare and contrast, it’s what we were raised to do in school. In History: compare and contrast the x, y, z factors of the renaissance with the industrial revolution. In Math: compare these inequalities and select which one yields a higher value for x? In Science: which one of these equations produces more energy? And […]