Category Archives: kaizen

Wishing Away The Present Moment

Why do so many of us expect happiness to come at some future date? I can remember being so excited about turning 10 years old – it seemed like such a milestone to my kid brain. Then it was starting junior high-school. Next, being a high-school freshman. As many of us probably did, I couldn’tContinue reading “Wishing Away The Present Moment”

How To Be An Interesting Person

Every week I share five YouTube videos with my team at work. Content ranges from self improvement, health, communication, business, science, philosophy, or anything else that can spark an interesting conversation. Each Tuesday, I post my favorite video from the past week in the hope that it will make you stop and think. Let’s allContinue reading “How To Be An Interesting Person”

Hack Success By Building Systems

In 2019, the fitness tracking app Strava documented and studied over 800 million user activities and found that most people quit their New Year’s fitness resolutions by January 19th. January 19th has thus been dubbed “quitters day.” In an article for inc.com, Marcel Schwantes writes that 91% of us won’t achieve our New Years resolutions.Continue reading “Hack Success By Building Systems”

Youtube Tuesday

Every week I share five YouTube videos with my team at work. Content ranges from self improvement, health, communication, business, science, philosophy, or anything else that can spark an interesting conversation. Each Tuesday, I will share my favorite video from the past week in the hope that it will make you stop and think. Let’sContinue reading “Youtube Tuesday”

5 Questions I Always Ask In An Interview

When interviewing potential employees I want to get much deeper than previous job experience and strengths and weaknesses. Over the past five years I have constantly modified the questions I ask and also how I ask them. Listening to Tim Ferriss discuss interview questions for his podcast has helped me better design questions to elicitContinue reading “5 Questions I Always Ask In An Interview”

Moral Licensing: When Doing Good Leads To Doing Bad

Have you ever eaten a bunch of ice cream and said it’s okay because you worked out that day? Or have you ever been rude to someone and justified it by thinking that you are actually a good person? I just listened to the first episode of the podcast Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell inContinue reading “Moral Licensing: When Doing Good Leads To Doing Bad”

You Don’t Design Your Environment, Your Environment Designs You

What is the first thing you see when you walk into a Whole Foods grocery store? It is usually a huge display of flowers. Your first impression of the store is freshness, color, and delicious smells. This sets the tone for your entire shopping experience. The flowers flip a switch in our brain that tellsContinue reading “You Don’t Design Your Environment, Your Environment Designs You”

Why Rethinking Is A Superpower

When was the last time you seriously rethought something? Not what to wear to your friend’s dinner party or how to arrange your vegetable drawer, but big things. Things like your religion, or lack of religion. Things like whether or not your career path lines up with your life goals. Things like whether your partnerContinue reading “Why Rethinking Is A Superpower”

The Environment of Improvement: People

I try to read equal amounts of fiction and non-fiction. Usually, I end up tipping the scales more in the non-fiction direction because I love learning from real world experiences. But fiction can provide equally important lessons. In the New York Times best selling novel Euphoria by Lily King, one such moment made me reflectContinue reading “The Environment of Improvement: People”