The evening of May 2nd, I checked into the Hotel Vitale. The hotel sits right on the corner of Mission St. and Embarcadero St.–an amazing spot of San Francisco right near the Bay Bridge and the Ferry Building Marketplace.
Tags: Chip Conley, San Francisco
January 19th, around 7:30 am (EST), I woke up like any other day. Still half asleep trying to get my brain functioning, I pulled out my cell phone and opened Twitter. Scrolling the recent tweets, I stumbled upon Tim Ferriss’s tweet mentioning a new blog post. Intrigued by the title, I clicked and began reading.
Tags: Chip Conley, Emotional Equations, San Francisco, vulnerability
Over sometime now, I started questioning why people are successful–I was looking more than the usual “they worked hard” answer. Now successful is vague, but in any endeavor–relationships, health, business, religion, etc– I think we can say there are people who are successful, who stand out and become examples for the masses. My question rephrased, what is [...]
Tags: vulnerability
One of the best videos I’ve seen in a while. Simon Sinek is a genius and seems to yet again, gracefully decode/state some of the biggest failures met by most. I previously saw a a TEDx Talk by Simon entitled, “How great leaders inspire action” where he takes a look into Apple’s marketing success (I [...]
Tags: 99%, Contribution, Video
The feeling of getting a new [brilliant] idea, which we might follow up with some sort of action, makes us feel great. The spark of passion pushes us to try to make some traction. In the beginning, it’s nearly brainless to work on our idea instead of part-taking in some other activity. However, if your [...]
Tags: Entrepreneurism, Napoleon Hill, Time
Too often than I’d like to count, I kick myself as I think “if only I would have done that earlier…” Today for instance, I finally called AT&T to complain about my shoddy modem that has been dropping signal (just as much as my iPhone) for about 3 months now. Everyday I can expect to lose Internet [...]
Tags: Procrastination, Proverb, Quote, Time
It’s not what you know, but who you know. If you think about any opportunity that you’ve been afforded, how did you achieve it? Unless you were randomly picked from a pile or you won based upon your works, it very likely you were granted your opportunity because someone knew you.
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