Reflections

Curiosity without boundaries.

In the spirit of the Renaissance ideal, these writings span multiple disciplines across philosophy, economics, societal challenges and more. With each piece I seek to explore ideas that resist simple conclusions, because the most important questions rarely have easy answers

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The Reward for Good Work

I was listening to a recent episode of Founders, where David Senra was covering The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. During the episode he referenced a quote attributed to Tom Sachs that particularly spoke to me:

“The reward for good work is more good work.”

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The Privilege of Pressure

We live in a world of contradictions. One such, is that many people say they want to succeed, grow and reach the highest levels professionally, personally, physically, or financially. Yet, at the same time few seem willing to accept that to achieve those outcomes you have to battle through hard work, pressure, effort, and sustained discomfort

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