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Growing Your Own Garden: Emotional Resilience for Entrepreneurs

Four strategies, including vital reading on moral philosophy, for keeping a cynical world at bay. It has been many weeks, and I finally...

Rachel Carson and Accepting, Not Chasing

Environmentalist Rachel Carson Happy Earth Day! Your questions hit me this week while I’ve been on the road again (follow along here to...

The Pitfalls and Potential of Gig Work for Americans

What does $1,800 a month mean to you? That’s how much our average Samaschool trainee earns through the gig economy after completing a...

Building the economy we want to live in

Hi friends, Greetings from Hong Kong! It’s fun to live in the future for a week 😃 For a quick list of inspiring recent content, jump to...

Step by Step, Ferociously

GRADATIM FEROCITER Jeff Bezos stuck this phrase on the wall of his space company, Blue Origin. I read it in The Everything Store, the...

The True Cost of Ignoring Your Health as an Entrepreneur

Over six weeks flew by and I didn’t publish an article...I had good reason: I was sick. Really sick. Like, multiple hospitals in foreign...

The #GiveWork Holiday Gift Guide

When it comes to happiness, stuff matters less than relationships and experiences. We know this, and yet…BLACK FRIDAY! CYBER MONDAY! (at...

Do Trees Feel?

What's a book review on a totally non-professional subject doing on LinkedIn? I find my work gets better when I encounter inspiration...

Solidarity vs. Charity

These last weeks while I’ve been on the road for Give Work (now live here!), I’ve been thinking more about the concept of solidarity. My...

Why a donation of $250 from my first employee moved me to tears

In December 2015, I was racing around trying not to slip on the high-gloss floor of a Mission District tech incubator that had allowed...

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