There are men that are trying to reimagine what it means to be a man. As in, how to be a different and hopefully better kind of man.
And we are doing this without role models to draw from. We are breaking ground, and it is remarkable.
To scale impact, every team leader has to build their team. Building a team is hard, but it’s not complicated.
To set us up for success, they key thing to do is get specific about the role, and the top 2-3 things we can’t compromise on in a candidate.
Learning how to win ugly is an essential skill. And yet, I feel like the world has conspired to keep me from learning it.
I don’t want to make noise about the sacrifices I’ve made, but I don’t want my sacrifices to be insulted by ungrateful children. I don’t want my children feel deep shame or know intense suffering, but I also want them to have opportunities to build inner strength. In some ways I need to tell stories about sacrifice, but in other ways that’s counterproductive.
What’s a parent to do?
It seems to me that a simple, relatively cheap, way to radically change the performance of an organization is to take consequential processes that are implicit and make them simple, clear, and explicit.
If we’re lucky, the Great Resignation may only be the beginning.
Hot take: the shift to remote work will finally expose bad managers, and help good managers to thrive.
Radha was never born or conceived. Yet, I know she is my sister. I hope our sons realize the gravity of the gift - brotherhood - they have.
Applying Rawls’s veil of ignorance to management, executives, and companies.
Once I actually thought about it, I resented sports less and wish the domains I care about - politics, the arts, and religion - took a page from the sports industry.
When we took Apollo to his final visit, the Veterinarian disarmed me with her compassion.
They key to finding our purpose is setting goals with much longer time scales.
Bo, Myles, and Emmett - if you ever find this remember that you are not here to justify us as parents. Remember to love each other. And remember our prayers for you.
My son has managed to teach me a lesson before he was even born - we can’t stop dreaming.
We all try to avoid unpopularity because it’s terrible. And so we have this big, consequential, choice: do we try to become popular by being aggressive or will be choose some other way?
We are all on a journey. We are all living out our own memoir, in a way. For our journey to become that of a hero, we must face our fears and conquer them. For me, that means confronting and conquering loneliness.
It’s bittersweet to realize your kids are growing, but that time is passing.
Every generation has to take it’s turn and lead. For millennials, our time is nearly here. How will our grandchildren remember us?
If leadership is essentially an act of taking responsibility, how do we create teams where more people take responsibility?
Exploring space has expanded what we believe about the universe and ourselves. The James Webb Space Telescope could change everything that follows.
For our marriages to survive and thrive - whether to our soulmate or not - we have to believe that life is better done together, not solo. No amount of love, destiny, resources, compatibility, or compromise can make up for not having this pre-requisite shift in mindset.