Here you can find an organized collection of some of my best posts:
Categories
Reports & Essays On Entrepreneurship
- Startup Genome Report: A new framework for understanding why startups succeed
- Startup Genome Report on Premature Scaling
- Startup Ecosystem Report 2012
- 2015 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking
- Waterloo, The David vs. Goliath of Startup Ecosystems
Entrepreneurship
Transformational Entrepreneurship Series in Harvard Business Review:
- Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact
- Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas
- The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship
- The Entrepreneurial Mind: Propensity to Heightened Creativity & Self-Destruction
- The Entrepreneurial Enlightenment
- A Deep Dive Into The Anatomy Of Premature Scaling [New Infographic]
- Introducing The Startup Genome Project
- Thiel Fellowship Essay #2: Changing The World
- Why Maximizing the Efficiency of the Startup Ecosystem Is Essential for Society’s Transition to an Information Economy
- Normal Entrepreneurship Vs. Revolutionary Entrepreneurship
- “You can’t Learn Entrepreneurship in the Classroom” Is No Longer True
Creativity
Philosophy & Psychology
- #nofilter Does Not Exist!
- Death, Destruction and the Systemic Viewpoint
- New Agers Are Metaphysical Lightweights
- Medicating Ourselves Into Lives Not Worth Living
- Analyzing & Integrating Diverse Psychological Models
- In Favor of Non-Local Consciousness
- Optical Illusions Reveal Reality’s Interpretative Nature
- Applying the Scientific Method to Spiritual Truths
- New Agers Are Metaphysical Lightweights
- Why Time Actually Flies
- Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Sequences of Personal Vehicle & Spiritual Development
- An Integral Critique of Thomas Metzinger’s Talk on Spirituality & Intellectual Honesty
- How To Overcome The Fear Associated With Making Changes In Your Life
- The Sphere of Knowledge, The Blanket of Ignorance & The Spirit of Progress
- The T Model: A framework for learning, work, personal growth and non-linear career progression
Spirituality
- The Relationship Between Life Purpose, Ego & Higher Essence
- What This Famous Marianne Williamson Quote Got Wrong
- Healing is Never Complete — That’s Not The Point
- Life Purpose and the Tension Between Ego & Essence
- Who Are You Really?
- Is The Universe Made Of Love?
- How to Combat Spiritual Bypassing
- The Integral Relationship Between Personality, Soul & God
- Sculpting The Spiritual Vessel of You
- A Divine Becoming
Culture
- Why I Really Don’t Like The Postmodernist Concept of “Privilege”
- Self Expressing Towards Self Indulgence or Self Transcendence
- The Difference Between Fame in Silicon Valley Vs. Los Angeles
Systems Thinking
Relationships
- How to Use Evolutionary Psychology To Overcome Your Fear of Being Judged
- Why Falling out of Love Feels like Death
- See Before Asking to be Seen
- What To Do When Loved Ones Engage in Self-Destructive Behavior
Foresight
- Maximizing The Future Of Humanity’s Thrivability With Technology
- Why Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking Don’t Really Understand Artificial General Intelligence
- Rigorous Futurism
- Speculation on Cosmic Civilizations
- Unified Global Organism
Politics
- The Paris Attacks & Worldcentric Hypocrisy
- On The Paris Attacks: How Ethnocentric Solidarity Can Hypocritically Betray The Desire For World Peace
- Why Does The Arc Of The Moral Universe Bend Towards Justice?
Dancing
My Personal Journey
- Reflections on My 25th Birthday
- My 4 Year Battle With Darkness
- Learning, Dropping Out of Stanford & Bold Life Decisions
- 21 Years Of Making Sense Of The World
- Why I’m Stopping Out Of Stanford and Applying For The Thiel 20 Under 20 Fellowship
- Destination Now Approaching: College Admissions
- Reflections On Finding My Passion And Early Steps In My Entrepreneurial Journey
- The Early Steps Of A Thousand Mile Journey
- The Birth Of Blackbox & The Startup Genome: Lessons Learned From A 2011 Entrepreneurial Journey
Meditation
- My Introductory Guided Meditation: Buddhist Concentration and Awareness Meditation
- Real talk on Yoga and Meditation
- Redefining Buddhist Emptiness for the Western Mind
Poetry
- A Rap About Sticking Your Neck Out (video)
- Social Media Neck Out
- Reading My Poem: Triggers (video)
- Dying Into Truth
- Fire in Vows
- Spiritual Sex
- Home, On The Spiral Journey Of Death & Rebirth