Edyfi is a house of young techies with shared traits of curiosity, bias towards action, and “recursive self-improvement.” These values are par for the course in tech: they signify a culture of constant learning, making, and growth. To not do one of these things — not be pushing yourself into…

A week ago, I had an amazing conversation with Brennan and a few others at Edyfi. You know the type: it went on for hours, flowing powerfully from Taleb’s essays about black swans, to startup and literary pursuits, to powerful revelations on culture and motivation. …

The CEO of a startup I worked for as a Product Manager asked me for one last contribution in the last week of my job: a write-up on how to make the team a high-performance one. For privacy’s sake I won’t get too much into the specifics of this company’s…

Lately, I’ve been writing quite prolifically. I’ve published sixteen blog posts in the last 28 days, with content ranging from personal essays, to frameworks for productivity, culture, creativity, and innovation, to project logs, to book notes. How much readership do I get? Google Analytics says about a hundred views across…

Saturday was an awfully unproductive day for me. After a long meeting in the morning, I ate and watched YouTube until mid-afternoon, then read for two hours, ate dinner, played Chess, played poker, and speedran a video game until 1 AM. …

“Being black should not influence a political view,” reads one prompt in Jubilee’s “Black Liberals vs Black Conservatives” video. All three conservatives step forward in agreement. “Being Black should not influence how you think politically,” says one of them. …

Playing on an average electric keyboard is like trying to see through thick fog on a rainy day. Nothing feels right and you can’t see ten feet in front of you. Playing an upright piano is like racing in an old sedan. It’ll get you from point A to point…

There are a lot of little decisions that we make in life; some that may seem insignificant, but that might determine the next few days of your life, and others that might seem important, but ultimately you may find that you’ve wasted your time and effort on making a meaningless…