What is the most swagger version of me?
One night, many years ago, I was out drinking with some friends.
Most of our group decided to call it a night. I was particularly feeling it this night, so I convinced one friend to continue the adventure with me. I'm sure glad he was there to witness it. This is a bit of a strange story, but I assure you, it's 100% real and has a point to it :)
What happens when I miss a step?
This morning I was rushing to get out of my parents' house to catch a bus up to NYC. I missed the bottom step of the stairs that I've walked down thousands of times in my life and down I went.
What happens when I miss a step? I end up on my ass.
How do I control the things I can't control?
We humans have been hardwired to desire a perception of control since before there was recorded history. Studies show that control is not only essential for our well-being, but that in earlier times it was a biological imperative for our survival as a species.
So it's no wonder we want to control anything and everything.
And yet we can't.
Who's calling the shots around here?
At the core of my being, I consider myself to be a builder and a scientist. I build products, technologies, and teams that help humans be better, and I create experiments to test my wild assumptions and hypotheses about the ever-changing world we live in.
I have noticed recently that I have been allowing my Human to be calling the shots with some of my experiments. I wrote yesterday about a major change to that. Let me explain.
Why am I going all in with Mamba Time?
The news of Kobe Bryant's death hit me hard.
I want to take the space here to work my way through what has been coming up for me in the week since he's past away, and why this feels like such a significant moment in time for me personally.