In 2007, for a very brief period of time, I lived in a nunnery. I had spent months in a hilltop town in India called Mcleod Ganj, the home of the Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetan refugees. I was there, as I would be every summer for three years, getting over a pretty reckless […]

Earlier this year, I emailed a friend of mine in London to ask if I could take him out for coffee to get some advice about running a successful business. I expected a lot of things going in, but I was not prepared for the only bit of advice I actually received. Get therapy, he said. This […]

Every Tuesday morning, I drop my kid off to preschool and like the thousands of commuters in the city, hop on a train that takes me to my friend’s house in London, from where I do my work for the day. My friend, who runs a very successful business, doubles as my business mentor, which […]

I walk three miles every weekday. This isn’t something I enjoy. It’s not something I do because I’m trying to get fit. It’s not even something I do voluntarily. I do it because we found an amazing preschool for my three-year-old son 1.5 miles from where we live, the bus service sucks, and I don’t […]