Effort feels good. There’s something deeply satisfying about the grind—the sense of accomplishment, the forward motion, the evidence that you’re doing the work. But what I’ve discovered after multiple venture exits and years of teaching Quantum Surfing? Effort can also be a hiding place. From my upcoming book, Quantum Surfing: The […]

The wave is building. And I’m so grateful for everyone already paddling out with me. This week, I’m celebrating the incredible humans who’ve joined my book launch team. You’re showing up. You’re saying yes. And I don’t take that lightly. One of you wrote this after signing up:You spoke at

As an entrepreneur, I’m obsessed with business models. Not the product. Not the marketing. The model — the invisible architecture that determines whether you’re swimming upstream or riding a wave. Take Amazon. In the early days, Jeff Bezos figured out something elegant: charge customers immediately, ship the books, then pay

My sister just got an Apple Watch. She can’t wear it. She feels the electromagnetic field pulsing against her skin. What if she’s not oversensitive, but accurately sensing what we’ve learned to ignore? We’re swimming in EMF — WiFi, cell towers, devices humming at frequencies that aren’t ours. We’ve plugged

Mountains ahead, audiobook queued up, two of my kids and my son’s girlfriend meeting me in Vail. I’m driving to a weekend of family and a Bucknell gathering. And somewhere on a winding mountain road, a woman named Sophia will start reading my book to me. Her voice has a

Two rounds of book cover designs. Something wasn’t clicking. I kept pushing forward anyway. The designer was talented. The concepts were solid. But every time I looked at the drafts for “Lucky by Design,” I felt… nothing. The covers were flat. The kind that end up in the bargain bin,