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Two Armchair Convos in Oakland Chinatown 12/15/24
Sitting with uncertainty 10/21/24
I told you not to come 04/21/24
Missing Wallet 04/06/24
4 Days in Macau 03/22/24
Bangalore, India 03/15/24
The relativity of expectations 03/08/24
Today vs. Tomorrow 03/01/24
Empty the cup 02/23/24
Friendship 02/18/24
Mixed Ideas, Surprising Results 02/10/24
Shades for people we don’t know 02/02/24
Covid 01/26/24
“I’m stuck. Can you help?” 01/12/24
Focus on the BBQ Sauce 01/05/24
Friendly skies 12/29/23
Poco a poco 12/15/23
Oscar 12/03/23
315 million frames 11/24/23
Car mechanics 11/17/23
Night 11/10/23
Near miss 11/03/23
Rules Over Decisions 10/28/23
The Unofficial Guide to Charles M. Schulz Museum 10/19/23
How to Do Great Work 10/14/23
The gardening approach to writing (and life) 10/06/23
The paradox of commitment 09/29/23
Only you know your kairos 09/23/23
Now or later? 09/16/23
I almost got upsold 09/04/23
What a Speech 17 Years Ago Taught Me About Fear 08/31/23
But You Get $7,500 Back 08/24/23
Stored Energy 08/15/23
What I hate NOT doing 08/10/23
The age of mania 07/14/23
How to Reach the South Pole 07/09/23
It’s easy to forget 06/28/23
Life of a project 06/26/23
How to be original? 06/25/23
This has worked many times for me. 06/25/23
Beneath the surface 06/18/23
Viva la vida 06/18/23
Eres importante 06/12/23
The Evolution of Work 06/06/23
Timeless skills 06/04/23
Uber trends 06/04/23
Time to leap 05/30/23
It Gets Easier 05/30/23
Breakthrough at 99 Ranch 05/29/23
Start with One True Sentence 05/24/23
What Gets In the Way Is the Way 05/21/23
Make Something Wonderful 05/21/23
Put Something Back 05/21/23
What Wasn’t There Before 05/20/23
Make Something Wonderful 05/20/23
Losing Rhythm 05/18/23
30 Years of Pool 05/14/23
Secret Broth Ingredients 05/14/23
The Cost of Delicious Lentils 05/14/23
Haruki Murakami’s Writing Habit 05/07/23
How Joel Embiid Became an NBA MVP 05/07/23
Me? They’ve Got Me Wrong 05/06/23
Brick by Brick 05/06/23
The Headaches We Don’t See 05/06/23
What Makes a Great Restaurant? 05/05/23
How I Came to Love Basketball 05/03/23
Balling with the Americans 05/02/23
What Kept Me In the Game 05/01/23
Become Better Listeners 05/01/23
How I Nearly Lost $196.24 04/30/23
Hidden Exposure 04/30/23
A Digital Battle 04/29/23
A Bizarre Relationship with Notebooks 04/28/23
Behind Schedule 04/23/23
The Ultimate Challenge for a Powerful CEO 04/21/23
SFO International Terminal 04/16/23
What made O’ahu heavenly 04/15/23
MH370 04/14/23
I Am Free! 04/09/23
Bets 04/08/23
A Not-for-profit Gold Mine 04/07/23
The Movie I Want to See 04/01/23
A Life Turned Upside Down 03/31/23
Saying It in a Different Way 03/25/23
Reframing 03/24/23
When You Go Fast 03/23/23
15 Minutes a Day 03/18/23
Why Not Me? 03/17/23
What Remained After a Decade 03/16/23
How A Bank Failed in 48 Hours 03/13/23
Imperfect Option 03/13/23
What Didn’t Change After A Decade 03/12/23
Disrupt a 20-year Pattern 03/11/23
Is It Possible to Tell a Story with 3 Sentences: My 17 Attempts 03/02/23
What I Have Learned From 33 Years of Life 03/01/23
All the ages at the same time 02/26/23
The limit of technology 02/24/23
Let Nothing Hold You Back: 3 Remarkable Stories on the Power of Constraints 02/23/23
The power of inversion 02/17/23
The paradox of life 02/16/23
The continuous interplay of presence and absence 02/10/23
The art of unknowing 02/03/23
A Habit Changed My Life 01/31/23
Streetlight Effect 01/27/23
Choosing to look 01/26/23
Space that unlocks 01/21/23
Choose A and B 01/19/23
Reframing 01/18/23
Identity + Action 01/18/23
Every one is unique 01/18/23
You don’t need more prep 01/16/23
Go Forward 01/15/23
Create what you want to see 01/13/23
Cultivate work you love 01/12/23
Scared? 01/11/23
Daily task management 01/10/23
Break things down 01/09/23
Try something new every day 01/06/23
Start with one 01/02/23
Anxiety 01/02/23
Less, not more 12/30/22
Plan vs. planning 12/29/22
Tweak the environment 12/28/22
Start small 12/27/22
Labels 12/26/22
Christmas comfort 12/25/22
Light and darkness 12/23/22
Karate Lessons 12/22/22
Regrets of the dying 12/21/22
Did He Waste 27 Years? 12/20/22
Not do something 12/20/22
Remove the unnecessary 12/19/22
Expectations 12/19/22
What They Didn’t See in This Problem Child 12/17/22
Win-win 12/16/22
From Firewood Sales to Presidency 12/16/22
When Winning Isn’t Winning 12/15/22
Seemingly futile effort 12/09/22
Two Mini Stories on Learning 12/08/22
Creativity without Fear: The Pixar Way 11/25/22
Failure is Not the End 11/18/22
Triple threat 11/11/22
Crossword puzzle strategy 11/10/22
The Power of Saying No: Southwest Airlines’ Simple Strategy 11/09/22
4. From Devastation to Triumph: A Basketball Story of Perseverance 11/04/22
Use what you have 10/28/22
Why Can’t A Musician Also Be A Plumber? 10/27/22
Daily grind 10/21/22
Facing a crisis 10/14/22
Fix The Minor Issues Now 08/24/22
On Accumulating 08/17/22
Fully Live This Second 08/10/22
On Giving 08/03/22
On Breathing 07/20/22
On The Gift of Time 07/09/22
Grief 06/26/22
A Time For Everything 06/03/22
Being Ready is a Choice 05/29/22
One Starfish At a Time 05/22/22
When you eat, eat. 05/21/22
Labels 05/18/22
Lights of the World 05/15/22
I Wish I Could Do That 05/13/22
Revive Your Inner Child to Play Again 05/07/22
One Starfish at a Time: A Reminder When Feeling Hopeless 05/03/22
On Growing Fruits 04/30/22
I Can Just Write 04/28/22
On Conditional Happiness 04/27/22
On Anxiety 04/26/22
Let Go of Perfection 04/24/22
Smoke Detector 04/23/22
When Trying Too Hard Is Counterproductive 04/22/22
Every Act Is Seeing 04/21/22
How to Choose Between Two Options 04/20/22
On Easter (2022) 04/19/22
Do It for No One 04/17/22
On Service 04/15/22
Commit to the Most Important Project 04/14/22
Everything I Learned About Writing 04/07/22
Managing Your Email Inbox: A Simple Guide 04/05/22
Rituals: Create Meaningful Time For What Matters 04/03/22
On Impermanence 04/02/22
How to Write Every Day 03/26/22
Get 15 Extra Days Back This Year 03/23/22
How to Spend More Time on What Matters 03/17/22
4 Years of Marriage 03/10/22
We Must Stand with Ukraine 03/04/22
How to Deal With Work Stress 03/03/22
Retreat at Big Sur (2022) 02/27/22
On Drinking Tea 02/23/22
Focus on the Pain, Not the Dream 02/21/22
The Bigger the Change, the Smaller You Start 02/15/22
The 4 Principles of Money Decisions 02/12/22
Freedom Is All We Want 02/06/22
What to Do When You Can’t Sleep 02/05/22
On Rediscovering What’s Right Here 01/28/22
On Morning 01/24/22
A Simple 3-Minute Workout 01/20/22
Break the Cycle of Career Comparison 12/15/21
The Joy of Connecting with Friends 11/28/21
Why My Dog Had a Credit Card 04/29/21
On One Year of Meditation (2021) 04/01/21
Reflecting on Death 02/15/20

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