Today’s podcast is simple, but its implications carry much more weight. I start each day by reading for 10-25 minutes, and it has been a transformative change for me to adopt. I share why in this episode while sharing a bit about the joys of reading. I hope you enjoy it and find it valuable enough to consider a similar habit for yourself. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

My wife and I recently used a large language model to help us verify our thinking about taxes. It did some good work quite quickly, but it ended up making quite a big mistake. I share a bit about this experience and the reflections it provoked in me. I hope they prove interesting and valuable to you as they did for me. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

How to resolve conflicts and challenges in relationships is a question we’ve been trying to deal with since the dawn of time. Two people who are different are always going to see things differently, so the conflicts and challenges themselves are inevitable. However, we have a say in how well we address them and whether they become productive for us, moving us toward greater connection and understanding. I share a framework here that I believe can help us to be more productive in this regard, which I hope you find useful and practical. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

My wife and I watched The Secret Agent the other night. We really enjoyed it, and we were also a bit puzzled by it. The acting performances were impressive, leaving us with a clear impression that this wasn’t just another movie. And yet, we also noticed that the meaning of the movie wasn’t necessarily easy to grasp for anybody stepping into the experience of watching it. I share more about this here and the takeaways I had from that reflection. I hope you find it insightful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast comes out of a recent experience of mine in my Italian learning journey. Frankly, I’m not investing the time needed to really learn effectively, and I’m far from consistent. I explore why this has become the case, along with the background for the system I aspire to use to learn vocabulary. It’s a challenge, but talking it out here helped me quite a bit. I’m hopeful it’s insightful for you, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today, I spend some time discussing a Terry Real quote that has sat with me since hearing it. “There is no redeeming value in harshness. There is nothing harshness does that loving firmly doesn’t do better.” I couldn’t agree more, although it is incredibly tempting to act out of line with this for a number of reasons. I share some of my thoughts about it here, which I hope you find useful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

This weekend was a nonstop onslaught of activities. It felt like I was running from the time I left my door in NYC to the time I returned to it over the course of four days. Many emotions ran through me, and I was happy with the way I dealt with them when I had a second to be with them. I share my experience here, which I hope you find valuable. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Uncharacteristically, I have missed 2 weeks of uploading a new podcast episode. I could make up many excuses, some of which I share in this recording, but at the end of the day, we all make choices. Each day, there was an opportunity to record. There always is. Everyone has ten minutes, whether they want to admit it or not. And yet, here we are. Today, I made a different choice. I’m happy with that, and I hope you enjoy listening to the outcome of that choice. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a broad reflection on Terry Real’s How Can I Get Through to You. He offers such a compelling framework and set of insights about how to have better relationships. The main focus is on romantic relationships, but the principles are generalizable across all types of relationships we have. I summarize some of the principles and ideas he shares here, which I hope you find valuable. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast was seeded by some observations I had this morning on the subway. My eyes were opened in a pretty strong way about the ways even the smallest of choices and behaviors can affect us, so I wanted to share my experience here. Perhaps you’ll hear some passion in my voice in a way you might not often hear on this podcast, so I hope you enjoy that little twist. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.