Category: Entrepreneurship

Eradicate Work Stress

Taking on Mental Health

It has been a few years since I've announced publicly what I've been working on. Ever since helping to transform the website globalization firm, MotionPoint, back in 2011, I've intentionally...

How a Company Creates Value

1) Build a product 2) Get someone to buy the product 3) Ensure each sale yields a profit margin 4) Ensure customer lifetime value (LTV) exceeds customer acquisition costs (CAC)...

Default Alive

Paul Graham wrote an excellent piece about the fundamentals of profitability regardless of external market conditions back in 2015. Being default alive is when your business’s unit economics yield profitability....

Deference Makes a Difference

Deference is defined as 'humble submission and respect.' This is when you suck it up and take parenting advice from your mother-in-law. Or when you take direction from the boss...

Investing in Your Vision

During a family Christmas gathering, I was asked to give investment advice. Luckily, I had stumbled into this situation many times prior and was properly equipped with the best possible...

His Reflective Materials

Without fail, we use the dawn of a new year as an opportunity to assess our lives. To reflect on the prior year and plan for the one ahead. A...

3 for 2022

Rather than making a list of resolutions each year, I like to revisit my personal theses and ensure I’m aligning my actions with my observations. And since I am constantly...

Measuring Personal Feats

2021 was another productive year for me. From all quantifiable perspectives, it was the most productive ever. Here are some highlights: Over 1,500 hours spent outside 48 family hikes Dozens...

My Theses on the Digitization and Decentralization of Assets (and Crypto)

1) A user-owned Internet can be best constructed using blockchain technology.2) Blockchain technology can and will rebuild inefficient systems around the world. There are ways blockchain initiatives can supplant themselves...

You Can’t Fake Genuine Care

I watched/listened to the below 4-hour meet and greet video while working one day last week. Gary’s humility and genuine care for other human beings is motivating, inspiring, and most...