I used to trade baseball, basketball, and all sorts of sports cards for hours a day as a kid. I had spreadsheets dedicated to inventory and price fluctuations broken down by cheap / rich based on the monthly Beckett pricing as well as offline activity. I even built my own showcases from wood (in woodshop class) so that I could go to the local trade shows and get my hands
Organizations like many things in life follow the tenets of nature. At any given point in time they may flow or crash like water. Like many species, they are adapting, growing or decaying. If we look closely enough we can see machines in nature all around us at work by understanding first principles and root causes, dissecting cause and effect relationships, 2nd and 3rd order consequences that are direct correlations
This Father’s Day hit home more than any other. Typical to many immigrant stories, my father came from humble beginnings. He grew up with no parents, his own father passed when he was 5 and his mother left the family thereafter. He was raised by his grandmother and sisters in Hong Kong and naturally rebellious ended up spending most of his time in the streets leading what some might call
How can I make this moment more…meaningful, memorable, momentous, and magical? What is my moment multiplier? I chose words that started with the letter “m” because “m” represents the slope, the rise/run in the universal linear equation y= mx + b. Or in other words, the rate at which changes are taking place, both steepness and direction. It seems an appropriate word to unpack, with all the layers of volatility
We’re taught early on in life to always do the right thing. To treat others how we want to be treated. To be fair, kind and show respect. These are first principles that make up the fabric of our society. Cardinal rules and a value system of how we choose to live with one another as human beings. But as human beings, we’re inherently flawed. Some more deeply flawed than
Sometimes you just have to start. It doesn’t matter where or how, all that matters is the when – that you start now. Often times we encounter resistance. We get paralyzed by analysis, we fear the unknown, over think, over perfect, and create obstacles in our minds that don’t exist. The simple act of doing allows us to traverse and push through the resistance that is often self inflicted. It