Comedians who do crowd-work are a tremendous inspiration for me as a communicator. These are people who have trained themselves to communicate under pressure by listening intently and building off of what the audience says. They may come into a "set" with a general framework of what they want to talk about, but the bulk of the impact of the show and the audience's experience comes from what surfaces in the room. In my assessment, the ones who become extremely good are those w

Thanks to modern medicine and scientific research, it is now commonplace for human beings' lifespans to extend significantly beyond their health span. This means there is a good chance that the length of your life will exceed your good health, mental sharpness, and physical independence. For many this gap is filled with suffering, depression, and struggle as they are slowly dying, and at the same time also need to contend with the struggle of the challenges of daily living

The brain is a prediction machine - and your first impression is the data it uses to forecast every interaction that follows. Here's how to shape it.

Today we live better than Kings and Queens of the past did. Every morning when you rise - the first thing you must always do is to meditate on how fortunate you are just to have been born and to be alive today. You are a winner of the birth lottery. To be born free, have indoor plumbing, to have access to modern medicine, to have abundant food, to be able to choose your profession, to have loved ones live a long life, to have an education - these are from the perspective of

Humans need brevity, and clarity in communication - GenAI tools like ChatGPT rewards the opposite. This means to optimize your use of GenAI - make it a practice to communicate with it in a manner that is the opposite as you would a fellow human. When a person first starts using GenAI, out of habit, they tend to communicate to it in a similar fashion as they would with another human being - short and simple. While GenAI has an incredible ability to infer and create great outp

Feeling stuck, anxious, or adrift? The cure is motion. Why cultivating a bias for action creates control, opportunity, and your own luck.

It is very easy for life to become a repetitive loop where our existence seems to become a series of indistinguishable days with moments of rare novelty scattered throughout. This happens because human beings are inherently creatures of habit - easily falling into patterns that are comfortable, routine, and predictable. Get up, go to work, relax… repeat - day after day - the pattern only occasionally interrupted due to a novel experience. A consequence of this is that our pe

What professionals must do to stand out and thrive is to develop a new competitive advantage that will be harder for AI to replace for the foreseeable future - the ability to effectively communicate and express your ideas live and in-person

As a life is the sum of your days, by living by this mindset each day, you will ensure that you lead a good life.

Take a quick scan of your Inbox right now. How many of the mountain of messages are clarifying questions and vague responses? All endless rallies in countless games of email ping-pong. The constant back and forth is costing you time, focus, and mental capacity! The solution is not asking your AI tool to "make this email better". It is to stop the games from happening in the first place I use a 3-layer practice I call BOOKEND DRAFTING. 1. Your draft 2. AI's draft 3. Your judg

Sometimes teams just gel. It just seems that their brains are all coupled at the biological level - you can finish each other's thoughts because the team has trust and is open with each other. This is both a blessing and on occasion... a problem. Visualize a team brainstorming session. The team has gathered to solve a business issue that has plagued the company for weeks. Ideas come at a rapid pace, and things move so smoothly that you come up with a consensus of action withi

If your online team meetings lack engagement, a good agenda, and a great facilitator may not solve the problem. You may be trying to put duct tape on something that is inherently broken. Online meetings offer significant convenience, but they also have many shortcomings. These include screen fatigue from seeing so many people at once, a lack of physical cues when interpreting communication, and, most damaging, an epidemic of multitasking. According to Calendly’s state of the