chapter four – my 30s
I finished reading the Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt this week. A lot of it was pretty common sense and some things were surprising, like religious people being happier. One of the things that caught me off guard was work and achievement of work as a source of happiness. In hind sight this looks obvious, [...]
My definition of a portfolio is having a range of investments where risk is diversified. If you’re investing, you’re likely to be taking this type of approach. Venture Capital and other industries are likely to take this approach. When recently considering life decisions I decided that maybe taking a portfolio approach to life isn’t a [...]
I was listening to the Stanford podcast of Stephanie Keller Bottom (of Nokia’s Innovent team) today and found myself sharing an experience with her. It wasn’t that we both have degree’s that aren’t really technology related even though we work in technology – although that is true. And it wasn’t the fact that we think [...]
One of the interesting things about working for a large multinational organization is that everyone has an opinion about the company. This definitely takes some getting used to. I knew it was going to be interesting the day after I let people know I was joining Yahoo, this happened to be the same day the [...]