Many moons ago I spent the summer working in Porto, Portugal. At the time, the country was far less developed than the rest of Western Europe. Portugal was lightyears behind the economies and hustle and…
I once left a perfectly good paying job with loads of student debt and almost no savings to my name to launch a company. I’ve flown planes, jumped out of planes, paraglided off 5,000 foot…
I was sitting on the floor in the back of an old single engine propeller-powered plane which was flying straight up toward the sky like a rocket ship. I was just a few feet away…
The receptionist escorted me to the conference room and said Mr. Stevens would be with me shortly. Mr. Stevens was the Chief Strategy Officer of a fast growing, Fortune 1,000 technology company. I was there…
I’ll never forget a deep sea fishing adventure I had over twenty years ago. It all started at business school during orientation week when I befriended a classmate from Florida over a couple beers. Jon…
In the beautiful Boston suburb of Winchester, Senator Jason Lewis was giving a fiery presentation to a roomful of concerned parents, teachers and citizens. The topic was educational finance reform. Funding for education had been…
I was returning to the San Carlos airport during my first ever solo flight. Everything went according to plan and I was now within sight of my destination. As I was preparing to go through…
I was standing on the edge of a mountain peak, 3,000 feet from the valley below. I had trained for over two years to be in a position to make this paragliding flight. I was…