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Balance
Be visionary, yet practical, liberated, yet grounded, efficient, yet patient, organized, yet flexible, confident, yet humble, curious, yet content, critical, yet positive.
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100+ Practical Cognitive Exercises
I use the term cognitive exercise to encompass all activities that “exercise” the brain, including meditation, self-hypnosis, and diary-writing. The brain is a like a muscle, or a collection of muscles, just like your body. Similarly, you have to train these different muscles with exercise. There are many parallels between physical and cognitive exercise. You have to do […]
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2015 New Year’s Resolutions
As you may know, I like writing down 10 New Year’s Resolutions and posting them on the wall in my bedroom by the door. It’s a constant reminder for myself throughout the year. This year, I kept my resolutions simple. Less specific means I won’t “finish” anything in particular, but my goal here is “progress, […]
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How to solve every major problem in the world.
TL;DR – have our kids do it. Every major problem in the world – hunger, poverty, environment, etc. – is rooted in a complex system of intertwined systems: culture, politics, economics, and so on. I assume there are major problems we have yet to realize (or accept as a society), but let’s focus for now […]
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Sometimes I get jealous of trees
Sometimes I get jealous of trees. Because they never have to ask themselves, where am I going? They’re in one place, their whole life, and they don’t really have a choice. So I guess there’s no point in wondering if they’re in the right place. As far as they’re concerned, it’s the only place. Maybe […]
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Life is all about balance
When it comes to life, it’s all about balance. At least that’s what I’ve come to conclude based on my current life experiences. As with anything, it’s subject to change. For every piece of advice I’ve read or received, I’ve heard the opposite. Given the context, they usually both make sense to me. When a […]
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Review: My 2013 New Year’s Resolutions
At the beginning of 2012, I wrote down 10 New Year’s Resolutions and taped it on my wall. At the end of the year, I reviewed my resolutions. I started this process without a specific outcome in mind, but found that I learned a lot about myself, not just from reflecting on my resolutions, but […]
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An Introduction to Startup Methodologies
There are a handful of startup methodologies that every entrepreneur should familiarize themselved with. These concepts, widely accepted amongst tech startups, were developed by seasoned entrepreneurs to help fellow entrepreneurs avoid common mistakes. The Business Model Canvas, developed by Alexander Osterwalder, is a framework for analyzing the different components of a business – it’s essentially a […]
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Best Resources for Learning Startup Marketing
Here’s a list of the best guides I’ve found to teach yourself startup marketing, digital marketing, growth hacking, or whatever else you want to call it: GROWTH HACKING/STARTUP MARKETING Growth Hacking is becoming an increasingly popular term for metric-based marketing for early stage startups. The term itself can be controversial, but don’t focus on that […]
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How to Get Into YCombinator
I started reading HackerNews recently, and I love it. Today, 3 of the top 100 posts happened to be advice for getting into YCombinator, so I though I’d post them here for people who might have missed it. While these are tips for YC, the same advice goes for applying to startup accelerators in general. […]