I finally posted the pictures for my two-and-a-half year old post on my friend Dave and I swimming across the Hudson River. They’re at the bottom of the post. An awesome day with an badass friend doing rockstar stuff.

If you know what you love and you do things you love, you may not be able to succeed by other people’s measures of success, but you’ll know you’ll never look back at what you did with regret. It’s difficult to imagine looking back and saying, “Darn, while everyone else was [doing whatever they do], I wasted all that time doing things I loved.” If you don’t know what you[…] Keep reading →

I’ve been getting a few questions on the talk, so I thought I’d post the answers here for all. Question: Which session should I go to? / Can I just go to one? Answer: The seminar is one unit over two days. It’s two days because it covers the essentials of a semester long class. And it’s cumulative. The breakdown is more theory the first day and more implementation the[…] Keep reading →

I just posted about April’s seminar, but it’s been up on the New York Academy of Science’s site for a while. They told me they reached the cap already, which I believe is set by the size of the room. Contact me if you’re interested.

April 5 and 7, 6-10pm at the New York Academy of Sciences I will be giving my seminar on Leadership and Personal Success — the best seminar you’ll ever attend. It’s similar to the leadership seminar at Columbia Business School in December, but more science-y and less business-y. Here’s the background from the NYAS web page (where you can register): Leadership and personal success through self-awareness and emotional intelligence are[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on creativity. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] I haven’t gone into any detail about Altshuller’s 40 principles. The main reason is I found that others already have and did a great job, so I’ll just link to them. The other reason[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on creativity. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Here are some basics to TRIZ. After the basics, I’ll interpret them. After examining all those patents, Altshuller and his team found that about 1,500 generalized solutions described all the specific solutions. Even simpler,[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on creativity. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Altshuller called his ideas the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, or that’s what the Russian gets translated to, which is generally called TRIZ. People pronounce it to rhyme with ease or is. As best[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on creativity. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Wow, I’m just learning about Altshuller and his discoveries. Amazing stuff. This man, Genrich Altshuller, was working in a patent clerk role in the Soviet Union after World War II. He was working for[…] Keep reading →