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Portico Darwin: Yawn

TODAY'S RAMBLINGS Ho hum. Another mass shooting, and this time, 19 school children and 2 teachers were murdered in cold blood. First black shoppers in Buffalo, and now Hispanic kids in Uvalde, Texas. I lay this directly at the (surely hideous) feet of Donald Trump. It is his normalizing of cruelty and racism that has led us to yet anot...

the graduate

A ceremony 2 years belated…marking what is likely the end of my formal schooling, and the end of my undergrad/grad 🍎Columbia🦁 tenure: A bit rainy & gray Caught on the kiss-cam From where I sat, I could see the windows of my undergrad freshman, sophomore, and junior year dorms 😭😭😭 2022 // 2014 accoutrements 🧙🏻♀ *CLAIRE COMMENCEMENT MAYB...

Relentless focus on the basics

Relentless focus on the basics is what separates winners in life and business from people who have massive plans but never get anywhere. Novak Djokovic focuses on just hitting the ball, really well. Kobe Bryant focused on free throw after free throw, thousands of repetitions on that basic shot. Tiger Woods played putt after putt after ...

Portico Darwin: Chesa Chess Game

TODAY'S RAMBLINGS The blog is back. Everyone can now resume their normal lives. My time away brought me to a number of locales, including Chicago, Tupper Lake, and my glorious hometown of Albany. Huge thanks to Steven Simon and his rock star wife, the gorgeous Stacey Moen Simon, for our two nights in Chicago at their Diamond Certified ...

Leveling Up, and being uncomfortable before the next big thing

We’re now on Day 72 of 85 here in Australia on Disney’s “Nautilus”. It’s wild for me to think that we’ll be back in the US in just a few weeks! I’ve gotten comfortable in Australia and will really miss our wonderful crew. 😭 There’s a chance we might move again this fall for a movie, so it’s difficult to justify moving into another apar...

Before Concluding, Let Me Briefly

Last week, I got another booster shot, met old friends, and spent most of my time in interminable meetings. They weren’t bad or unproductive or anything—just interminable. Then again, some individual contributions were strongly reminiscent of this classic Calvin & Hobbes cartoon. Sigh. Students, it must be said, are also often carried ...

The prolific production formula

Creating content is one of the best ways to grow your business. Becoming a content creation powerhouse involves three steps: ideation, execution and delegation. Ideation is your way of getting new ideas for what you create. Carry a notebook, meet new people, read new books, become inspired in some way. Execution is where you focus on c...

People: The Triumph of Happiness

Is happiness an inherent quality or a state of mind? Your life depends a lot on your outlook. Contexts Of course, we should preface this question with "things fall in a spectrum of sorts", where happiness is neither entirely determined by fate nor entirely defined by our actions. It may sound cliche, but we need this elastic-band-like ...

Harming others without realising it

‘When Things Fall Apart’ by Pema Chödrön has been on my radar for a while now. But it’s sat on my reading list without ever making it to the top. This week I started reading it though, and it’s full of wisdom! Challenging too. I appreciate when a book calls me out on my shit and I’m in a place to receive it, learn from it, and grow. Th...

taking 30

I’m going to spend the next 30 days away from writing. Instead, I will use the space I normally hold for writing to do some much-needed reflection on foundational questions like: how do I want to put myself out in the world? what do I want to express? where do I want to express it? and does writing have to be it, or are there other out...