There is great power in being refined. We’re going to really break down what that means, and take an in-depth look at the process and the...

Remember our previous post about being quiet and recognizing the sublime ? In that blog I shared a supremely sublime moment in my life that happened when a friend texted me the night after I’d been fired. But there is another sublime moment that always fills me with awe. It happened when my friend Jeff and I were working on a problem at work, and suddenly we saw something that had been in front of us for years but we’d never noticed. From this, we ended up creating a patent t

In our lives, we give people permission—sometimes knowingly, most times unknowingly—to control us with invisible strings. They’re the ones that tie us to our past, to someone else’s expectations, to the version of ourselves that we think we’re supposed to be. Unfortunately, gifts from loved ones often come with strings like these. My parents taught me about this in very different ways. My dad’s love language was excessive generosity. He gave freely, abundantly, and without co

I was at a Texas Tech event listening to a speech by Dr. Jagdip Singh , a professor at Case Western Reserve University. He was being honored as a Distinguished Alumni recipient, and he was talking about his journey. He talked about how he’d had his sights set on being an engineer, and how he went to get his PhD with every intention of going back to industry. That was the plan. That was the whole reason for the degree. But then one of his professors challenged him, asking him