Author, Investor, Speaker, Mentor
As a founder, your own emotional health is another key metric you need to manage, and you need to treat it as such. I rely on three simple interventions: 1) Get a good night’s rest. Failing that, take a nap. On days when I haven’t had enough sleep, every problem seems like a mountain, and … Continue reading I’m a founder, and I’m feeling down. What should I do?
My friend Peter Sims recently wrote about how he disagrees with Peter Thiel’s “Competition is for Losers” editorial. Thiel argues that monopolies are good for society, and Peter respectfully disagrees. My own take is fairly nuanced–monopolies are a sign of a healthy market, because they tend to result from innovation in “winner-take-most” markets, but they … Continue reading Monopolies Are A Consequence, Not A Benefit
From Peter Thiel’s recent Reddit AMA: “As an investor, I think one must always maintain a certain amount of humility. There is only so much we can do to help the companies in which we invest. And because of this, the act of making the investment (rather than the ability to fix things later) remains … Continue reading The Value of Investors: Why I Focus On Helping Entrepreneurs
Many advocates of the sharing economy love to extoll its ability to enable a new kind of work. The dream is that rather than slaving away at 9-to-5 jobs, people can earn a living by driving for Uber fares, completing TaskRabbit gigs, making Diner Dash deliveries, and who knows what else. There’s no doubt that … Continue reading Fungible Work Will Always Become Low-Paid Work
I’ve written before about how I use the Pomodoro Technique for my work. What may be less obvious is how I use the Pomodoro Technique for savoring life as well. Splitting my life into 20-minute increments is as useful at home as it is at the office. For example, it’s very easy for me to … Continue reading To Savor Time, Be Aware Of It
This week, the internet worked itself into a frenzy over leaked naked celebrity pictures. I haven’t looked at these pictures, and you shouldn’t either. Being hot doesn’t negate your right to privacy. Earlier this year, a political activist was arrested for breaking into a nursing home and photographing Rose Cochran, the wife of Mississippi Senator … Continue reading Being Hot Doesn’t Negate Your Right To Privacy
Each year, we take the family on the road to explore America. Some of our past trips have included driving up the Pacific Coast Highway, and visiting all the museums at the Smithsonian in Washington DC. This year, Alisha had the opportunity to take a two-month sabbatical, which allowed us to take a longer (and … Continue reading The Yeh Family East Coast Vacation
William Deresiewicz has been writing a lot about the problems with an Ivy League education. As someone in possession of two expensive degrees from Stanford and another expensive degree from Harvard Business School, I am both sympathetic to his points and terrified that he’ll damage the value of the brands that I (and my parents) … Continue reading Find Your Compass All Around You
Envy, to put it bluntly, sucks. This isn’t news; envy is one of the original seven deadly sins. And the media is happy to tell us that envy is the most modern of sins, enabled by social media and the fear of missing out (FOMO; by the way, who decided that everything had to be … Continue reading The Real Reason You Need To Overcome Envy
I’m delighted to share the news that the book I wrote with Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, The Alliance, is coming out on Tuesday! The book expands on the ideas from our Harvard Business Review article of last year, “Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact” and lays out our argument for why companies that … Continue reading Coming This Week: The Alliance