Kill the Romance: Charlie Munger’s 5 Rules of Cold Survival

If you are currently standing before unbearable pain, read this.

Anger, Loneliness, and Side-Interests: 5 Paradoxes That Forged Success (with Charlie Munger)

“Fear of failure? No, perhaps the thing that truly haunts you is ‘boredom.’”

Nepal

Himalaya Odyssey (4/6)

"Just Walk This Much"

Nepal

Himalaya Odyssey (3/6)

The Triangle of Trust

Tired of the Rat Race? Naval Ravikant on ‘The Irreplaceable Weapon’

Young founders just starting out often say, “I’ve got nothing.” But the Silicon Valley wise man, Naval Ravikant, says ‘wealth’ isn’t about…

Nepal

Himalaya Odyssey (2/6)

The Best-Laid Plan

Nepal

Himalaya Odyssey (1/6)

Where Everything Fell Apart

A brand is the sum of ‘consistent actions’: Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard’s 5 Proofs

Many founders define “branding” as the image they want to project to others. But for Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard, a brand was the…

Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson

“Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson…”

[Trail] Have You Been to Kota Kinabalu Alone?

Finding Myself in the Most Unlikely of Places.

Trump, the master of personal branding (4/4)

The Man Who Became the Product

How to fall well (Trump ver.) (3/4)

On Day 2, we walked through Trump’s process of getting ‘credentials’ and scoring his first win in Manhattan with a ‘show’ of competence. He…

[Pilgrimage]How did young Trump hit it big?(2/4)

On Day 1, we saw his ‘lack’ and ‘tools’ in Queens and Brooklyn. He wanted ‘fame’.

[Pilgrimage] A Childhood Unlike Yours: The Making of Trump (1/4)

This is a 5-day record of noise. We follow, with a quiet gaze, the trajectory of how one man made his ‘name’ into ‘substance’ itself. This…

[Pilgrimage] Arrival, and the First Step of a Stranger (2/4)

Jane Goodall’s Journey: An 8-Night, 9-Day Record

Sushi

[The Trail] Travel is a Carbon Copy of Life (3/3)

Hasami: A Japan Travelogue – In Search of the Artisan's Spirit

[Pilgrimage] Walk, Fail, Prune, Return: A Creator’s 4-Day Field Guide to Steve Jobs’s Path (2/2)

Day 3: Wilderness and Tempering

the trail

[The Trail] “Dokoni ikimasuka?” (2/3)

Hasami: A Japan Travelogue — In Search of the Artisan’s Spirit

Imari

[The Trail] "This is the Real Deal" (1/3)

Hasami: A Japan Travelogue – In Search of the Artisan's Spirit

[Pilgrimage] Stuck? Walk. We Traced the Steps That Turned a College Dropout into an Icon. (1/2)

A Contemplative Journey for Those Who Create

Trans-Manchurian

[The Trail] Ten Hours at the Border, and What a Single Can of Beer Taught Me (3/3)

The Trans-Siberian? No, the Trans-Manchurian Railway.

[The Build] New Way

What You See Only When the Path You Believed Was Your Everything Disappears

[The Playbook] The Problem-Solving Framework

The Problem-Solving Framework I Used to Build a Community from 0 to 1,000 Members

[The Build] Needs

The Story of How I Accidentally Became the President of the Korean Students’ Association in St. Petersburg

[Founders]GoodInfluence — Finding Meaningful Impact

In my previous post, I shared a story about challenges. This time, I want to talk about the core motivation behind those challenges — the…