Is being surrounded by thought-provoking ideas. Challenging your way of thinking and analyze what you previously accepted as truth. My favorite authors, Seth Godin, Micheal Ellsberg, Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, are those that present such challenging idea. But I’m always looking for other such thinkers. And sometimes I find them at the grocery store, in…

Seth Godin asks a thought provoking question: If it takes one phone call from a close friend and a random act of kindness from a stranger to make your day go from a bad one to a good one, why would you ever choose to have a lousy day? Even better, why would you let…

3 months ago I documented the skills I would like to develop before starting my first company. I didn’t expect 3 months to go by so quickly. But then, who does? Today I reflected on the skills I wrote down and how I feel I’ve progressed. Hard Skills Finance 45/100Finished “An Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham, but wouldn’t…

Your resume is a story of the pain you’ve been through. It proclaims the hard things you’ve done. Like managing a team or founding a company. Like preserving when the odds seemed slim and there was a plethora of doubt. You’re trying something hard, you’re doing something mildly uncomfortable. And hard things are often (not…

Before I die, I would like to give away over half of my wealth. With that goal in mind I’ve been thinking of ways to give away my wealth effectively. Especially when I hear news similar to what one research institution in Bangladesh found of the more than 30 billion in foreign donor assistance received…