Throughout my quarter life I have often asked myself this question. It’s important to have dreams and lofty goals and I’ve always tried to set my expectations high. As my nanny has often said, “Brian, it’s your America”.
In my youth I wanted to grow up to be a pro baseball player. […]
I wake up in the morning and I’m usually kind of grumpy. Sometimes it takes me as long as a half an hour to snap out of it. I think it’s just my nature. That instant when my alarm clock beeps is often my most irritable moment of the day. If I […]
My Thursday Night
I bounced out of work early tonight and headed uptown for some dodgeball playoff action. My team, Dodgeball 2.0, consists of NextNY entrepreneurs and we’ve been enjoying a decent amount of success in our second season. While I’m not in love with dodgeball leagues (awkwardly intense) I’ve enjoyed playing on this […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandfather (Poppy) lately. I think I miss him. He passed away five years ago this month. I just want to be able to share the sofa and listen to him tell me stories about his life again.
I knew Poppy as a warm and loving grandpa who […]
I’m not really the new year’s resolution type of guy. It’s not that I don’t seek self-improvement. I guess I just don’t think a reset of the christian calendar is the motivation I need for me to change my life. My biggest worry each new year is remembering to write the correct […]
I’ve been thinking an awful lot about the trends, industries and societal transformations that will shape the future. Trying to identify these movements might make it just a bit easier to uncover new opportunities in business, philanthropy and life. One concept that I’m starting to really believe will dominate the future and eventually […]
My schedule during the week seems to be growing more hectic as I’ve been working late or attending work-related events at night. I’m also off the grid on the weekend – either literally as I often venture out of the city or figuratively as I shut off my phone (and brain) and try to […]
When I mention to people that I have my own blog I usually receive a smirk. It’s as if their exaggerated eye roll is speaking directly to me and saying “what the heck do you “blog” about and isn’t that kind of nerdy anyways”. Right before I started blogging I told one of […]
Last night I went to see the movie Into The Wild. I thoroughly enjoyed the book by Jon Krakauer when I first read it in college. It actually was assigned reading for an English class and it led to this essay (In a blog post back in March, I claimed it to be […]
Today was 9/11. It is the sixth anniversary since the tragic and fateful day. For many, the wounds aren’t as raw but the memories of that day are still powerful. I found myself thinking about 9/11 a lot today. My big sister wrote an email to Courtney and I this morning. […]
