High value man
What it mean to be a “high value man” today, and flaws with that term.
Culture
Ode to Masternodes
Nodes are one point in a network. Using this analogy, masternodes are significant influencers in a network who facilitate other connections. 80% of people are waiting for an invitation to do something. Something fun to do on the weekend. Traveling abroad. Or maybe a dinner party. The other 20% are masternodes. These are people who
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Damn it, all my heroes are white men
Updated: click here to see The AAMPED 100, a project to curate 100 Asian American Personal Development Personalities _ _ _ It can take a lifetime to see the obvious. I was putting together a list of all my favorite writers, bloggers, and personal development thinkers. It was an exercise to identify what they have in
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My experiment with second degree dinners
For the past month, I’ve been doing something called Dinner with Strangers. The idea is to make new friends through trusted second-degree dinners (inspired by Nat Eliason), which has benefits like… Meeting new people Less creepers because participants are vetted through your network (hence “second degree”). Dinner parties are cozy, intimate environments good for conversation
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How to build a social community
It’s 1:35AM, I’m bleary-eyed with a spreadsheet, entering names of people I’ve met into Excel. I just came back from a networking mixer and was excited about making new friends in LA. Having moved to a new city and spurred by a breakup, I started mulling over the idea of community. Since my closest friends have
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Voting in the 2012 Elections
I dropped off my ballot around 6:00PM last night at a Buddhist Temple in Long Beach. Thank to my friend at The Political Breakdown (great blog), who told me about this hidden gem of a polling place. The whole process took me 4 minutes, in and out. I know some people in the heart of
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Homeless People
Where I’m living right now, there’s an interesting separator between the neighbor’s house and mine. It’s a recession about four feet wide and 1 foot deep. Since it’s walled off by bricks on both sides, I don’t see what’s in the middle until I walk out on the street and pass my neighbor’s house. It’s
The Problem With Makeup
When I was your age…I wish I’d known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters. ― Ilene Beckerman Makeup can be a trap. Girls grow up beautiful as they are, and one day – be it puberty or earlier – they feel
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