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My Takeaways From Amp It Up (Surprisingly Not About Hustle)

The book's title – Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity – sounds like it promotes "hustle culture". But it's actually about real execution, not just relentless physical effort. One, to focus first on execution (before strategy) for three

Sam Altman on Risk

While the OpenAI turmoil was happening over the weekend, I dug into Sam Altman’s archives. I read articles like How Things Get Done, How to Be Successful, and Startup Advice. Reading these posts, I noticed Sam writes a lot about risk, and specifically, that most things are not as

I Have Met the Enemy (And It Was Never My Job)

Sometimes, people ask what my biggest learning was during my time wrestling. My answer: I learned not to blame my job for my unhappiness. Before wrestling, whenever I felt unhappy, I would tend to blame my job. Something about this job is hard. Frustrating, Stressful. If only I had that

Meetings can be the best type of work.

Most people hate meetings. We’ve been indoctrinated with the belief that meetings take us away from our “real work.” In this post, I share a belief I have about the world that others don’t realize. It is that meetings can be the best type of work. People give

That’s okay. This is the game I choose to play.

I have been randomly bursting into tears at work. It has nothing to do with the company or the people I work with. It has everything to do with me. Why? I am not sure. Out of frustration, I guess. All I know is, this happens in the first six

How was the Vipassana course? My response.

I completed my first 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course last Sunday, May 22, 2016. Upon returning, people asked me how the course was. I have never had a harder time responding to this question. Now that I’ve reflected on it, this is my response — why it’s tough to

Business should be fun

I can’t seem to sit still. It doesn’t feel like it… The days are long but the years are short and stuff. But as I learn more about how the world really works, my values change too. For example: * I used to want to be super duper smart.