In today’s world, we take for granted our ability to summon private drivers in seconds, order thousands of products for same-day delivery, and stream millions of songs, videos etc. instantaneously. These conveniences have fundamentally changed our daily lives. The ascension of these services is linked to many areas of use, such as smartphones, mobile applications, […]

Day 1: I don’t want to get out of bed. The frustration, the self-hatred, the anger… I can feel my emotions cycling through my head in a painful loop. I want to be normal. Normal people don’t have to deal with this. Normal people can get married and have kids. Normal people are happy.  I […]

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.” – George Washington Back in AP US History I […]

An Apple shareholder recently asked the company’s CEO Tim Cook why he has embraced supply chain sustainability, third party worker safety audits and several other initiatives that are expensive and unprofitable. With a bluntness rarely articulated by a public company CEO, Cook responded, “[Apple does] a lot of things for reasons besides the profit motive. […]

“High-Risk” – classification given to conversations with texters who have been deemed to have a high-risk of suicide. As a crisis counselor, conversations like these jolt your adrenalin and training into action. Your own emotions are quickly put aside and you dig in. -:-:-:-:- For the past 12 weeks, I have spent more than 50 hours interacting […]

GoPro went public in March of 2015 at a valuation of $3B. Just a little under a year later, its valuation has cratered to $1.7B, a drop of 43%. Etsy entered the public markets in April of 2015 valued at $3.3B. Fast forward to today, its value has dropped 74% to $850M. FitBit IPO’ed in […]

“We don’t want to be a digital colony of the U.S. Internet giants, what’s at stake is our sovereignty itself”. – French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg[i] The tide has shifted – Montebourg is no longer alone. Google has maintained a high market share in the EU since its inception, but a growing movement against its […]

October 2011: Tim Cook takes the stage of Apple’s annual Media event for the first time as CEO. On the heels of record-setting achievements from the first four iPhones, Cook debuts Apple’s latest device: iPhone 4s. The aesthetics match the iPhone 4; the technical specifications improve, but not significantly; only one feature clearly distinguishes the […]

January 7th – 9th I was lucky enough to travel to Las Vegas to attend the annual technology trade show CES (Consumer Electronics Show). Although my time spent attending CES events and walking the floor was limited, my experience got me thinking about the current state of the technology industry. With the halls of CES fresh in […]

My crisis was in October of my freshmen year of college. I was living a life I knew wasn’t right, spinning lies to fulfill false fantasies, and worrying constantly that someone would find out I had a secret. More than anything else, I felt alone – incapacitated by fear. In one of my most anxiety-ridden […]