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2021 Year in Review

Posted on January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 by Eric

2021 was quite a year. Let’s start this review post by listing off a few significant events in my priority areas of family and coaching: Our second child was born in the spring. She exhibits intense curiosity, with a desire to be where the action is – she has serious FOMO! Meanwhile, our first child […]

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The Present Moment Is Everything You Need

Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 by Eric

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor Frankl “Be present now” was one of the maxims I included in my personal operating system a few years ago, and I’m starting to think it […]

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2020 Year in Review

Posted on January 3, 2021January 3, 2021 by Eric

My priorities for 2020, as they have been for the last couple years, were to focus on my family, and to grow my coaching business. Having those priorities clear for myself made it easier to navigate the volatile year of 2020. Family came first, then my clients and coaching business, and everything else got dropped […]

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Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on June 7, 2020March 11, 2022 by Eric

Amazon link I purchased this book when it came out several years ago, but gave up on reading it at the time because I didn’t have the patience to absorb Coates’s words and perspective. I restarted it this week, and finished it in a couple days, as it’s not a long book…but it is a […]

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Privilege and Self-Education

Posted on June 1, 2020March 11, 2022 by Eric

My heart hurts today, and I felt I had to write about what’s going on in America. Staying silent reinforces the current systemic inequities. Silence implies that the system we have is okay. And it is not okay. So I am sharing what little I know, and links for me and others in my position […]

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2019 Year in Review

Posted on January 4, 2020November 19, 2020 by Eric

I ended my 2018 Year in Review with the intention that for 2019, “I will stay focused on my priorities of my family and my coaching, and will figure out the rest from there within the remaining capacity that I have.” And that turned out to be a good summary of how I spent my […]

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My Coaching Journey (so far)

Posted on October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 by Eric

I recently realized I announced my recent career transition on LinkedIn, on Facebook, and have even been interviewed about it on the Corporate School Dropout podcast, but somehow forgot to talk about it on my own blog. Oops. The summary is that I left Google in July after working there for almost 11 years, to […]

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Bikepacking as a spiritual practice

Posted on October 3, 2019January 4, 2021 by Eric

As I mentioned in my last post, I went on a week-long bikepacking tour along the Lost Coast in Humboldt County a couple weeks ago (pictures here for those interested). I found the bike tour to be a surprisingly spiritual experience, so I wanted to share a bit about my experience. I realize that “spiritual” […]

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2018 Year in Review

Posted on January 1, 2019November 19, 2020 by Eric

Instead of my normal rumination on what I’ve learned this past year, let’s change it up, and do a picture-based post in mostly chronological order. Those of you that follow me on Instagram have seen most of these, but it’s a nice way to hit the highlights of the year. I’m still in the same […]

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Introduction 2018, and a story of personal growth

Posted on November 17, 2018September 2, 2021 by Eric

(n.b. This was written in November 2018. More recent updates include my journey into coaching and my annual year in review posts). I like having a page on this blog to explicitly introduce myself, even though you can get a sense of who I am from reading the various posts and browsing the archives. I […]

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About me: I'm an unrepentant generalist finding my way in a world of specialists. I started this blog to review books, but I later expanded to write on whatever interested me across a range of topics.

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Nice take from @cwarzel on the emptiness of Web3 / crypto use cases. I often say you don't have a business unless you solve a problem that people will pay you to solve. Yet these Web3 advocates can't articulate what problem they are solving! newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6…

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