Daily Letter

Rambling thoughts on why we do what we do, strategy, building teams, building you, and doing work that matters.

A thought-provoking collection of ideas and musings that if taken to heart, have the potential to add immense depth and richness (with compounding interest) to your life
— Shane Dryden, YUPPIECHEF co-founder
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Let it go... faster.

The single biggest benefit meditation has given me is to become more resilient, the ability to let go ... and get back to what matters faster.

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Infinity in your hand

There are about seven and a half quintillion grains of sand on earth (give or take). This sand has been formed over the last 500 million years. When you pick

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very melodramatic

The stories my mind makes up is incredible in a terrible way, one little hook or one little comment and my mind races around in circles coming to the conclusion that all is worthless and we're just a day away from living on a trash heap.

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Stop

Anne Lamott, one of my favorite authors, said in her TED talk that one of the things that she knows for sure in her life is

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Boredom

Thomas De Quincey call it the formidable curse of life, taedium vitae - the tedium of life. In other words the ordinariness of life, boredom. Boredom is the least tolerable of human states.

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Expand

Here is a little jewel I picked up, you expand by relaxing. It seem counterintuitive almost, but makes complete sense when you think about. If you want more, wider, bigger, then relax.

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