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In protest of the New Zealand bookshop that banned the book after the horrific Mosque shooting two weeks ago (though, strangely, it failed to ban Mein Kampf), I went ahead and bought it and started to read it. 12 Rules for Life isn’t the best book I’ve ever read, but it is in a genre…

I just finished Young Stalin by Montefiore and if you haven’t read it yet, definitely do so. It’s a thorough biography of Stalin before he was Stalin, from his birth all the way through to the Russian Revolution of 1917, a profile that covers many episodes about which, according to the author, have never been…

Open question for my readers as I continue to learn lessons from my experiment in growing an Instagram following: what kind of influencer do I want to be? It clearly isn’t enough to just get followers. You have to get engagement as well. And engagement means compelling content and an audience that wants it. I…

I’m very excited about an angel investment I just made in a NYC-based startup called Wellory. Wellory is a platform to connect millennials with certified health coaches for personalized health advice and custom wellness solutions. Health coaching is a $6 billion market in the US and, little did I know, there are twice as many…

I’m fully aware that this is going to come across as yet another millennial who has “discovered” cooking. And yes, I’ve been cooking more recently. But it’s not some brand new discovery of things like cost, the joy of producing something new for yourself, or health. It’s just a re-evaluation of how I choose to…

This Friday began, at 4pm, as most of my Fridays in NYC do: no plans. But something always comes up. I ended up grabbing happy hour with coworkers in the neighborhood, followed by a round of hand rolls at Kazu Nori. Then I found out that I had some friends in the East Village watching…

It sometimes seems easier to do hard things than it does to easy things. For instance, I’ve been working my ass off all week (send flowers if you really care), and haven’t really noticed the grind that much. I send maybe 50 emails per day, at least half of which are coordinating major projects with…

Since helping to organize a panel discussion around entrepreneurship and markets in North Korea last year, I have been getting more involved in volunteering for an organization, Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), that I believe has a crucial mission: the rescue and resettlement of refugees escaping North Korea. Having met and become friends now with…

Have you ever noticed that some people seem to have an unlimited well of energy? Inhuman, unstoppable, hyperactive levels of energy that they bring into every conversation and interaction. Perfectly pleasant, socially gifted people, for all their graces and deference, have nothing on people of energy. They enter rooms like hurricanes. Everyone has to pay…

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