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It’s never as hard as we think it is to lose touch with friends. As I’ve said before and I’ll say again, friendship is situational and requires equal effort from both sides. Losing touch is merely a reflection of the nature of the friendship, and has no bearing on how close a friendship it actually…

Why would you spend any time or energy hating anybody? I had a classmate I hated once. Really hated. I won’t go into details for obvious reasons, but I so clearly remember the feeling. It was all-encompassing, frustrating hate. I thought about him all the time. Hate not only of who he was and his…

When I was in college I thought it would be a good idea to make a website that helped students manage their classes, take and share notes for homework. It did really well in one of my classes; everyone used it to prepare for the final. Then I took it to the administrators and tried…

“Imagine a graph,” my friend said, “where one axis is how interesting you are, and the other axis is how self-involved you are.” Done. Everyone falls on this graph. Donald Trump: extremely self involved, but also extremely interesting. Elon Musk: also extremely self involved and extremely interesting. Probably why people call Musk the Trump of…

We all know Donald Trump is terrible at so many things. Reading, for example. Or not lying. But if Democrats want to beat him in 2020 they have to understand and defeat him at the thing he’s good at: marketing. Trump is a man whose entire career has been built on the power of marketing,…

Every once in a while, you realize what you thought about yourself just isn’t the case. And it can leave you feeling pretty down on yourself and shaken up. On the other hand, if you are truly honest with yourself, you can turn this realization into a learning experience, and be better off in the…

As of January 1, I’ve now written 90 blog posts for 90 days of the year. To be totally honest, I’ve slipped a bit and haven’t always kept up day-to-day. There are days (such as today) where I’ve written 2 or more posts I had missed to fill the gap. Other times, I write posts…

Literally not an hour goes by where I don’t check my phone. I bet you’re the same way. The dopamine rush you get from a notification is addicting. I think they’ve made it that way on purpose. Of all the areas I need to most improve (and we all do, honestly, as a society), learning…

So, on the heels of my epic months-long quest to eat healthier, I’ve dropped my strict dietary restrictions in favor of counting calories straight up. There’s a baseline ‘budget’ I get each day; when I exercise, I get more. As I’ve found out, when I drink, the budget gets eaten up (no pun intended) real…

Tonight I had the honor of hosting Drink for LiNK for supporters of Liberty in North Korea in New York. We had the opportunity to meet as a community and share a quick celebratory toast in honor of 1000 of our North Korean friends who have reached freedom. We lit a candle on cupcakes as…