Learn How You Make Decisions

The past few months of remote work have really started to highlight to me how different leaders and thinkers make their decisions. Varying from speed and style to autonomy, I’ve learned a lot about how I personally like to make decisions and communicate them to the team. What I’ve found by observing other team members…

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Get Ready For The Year of the Entrepreneur (2021)

I am convinced 2021 is the year more companies than ever before will be launched and we have the pandemic and stay-at-home orders to thank for that. But let’s be clear, this wasn’t the governments plan all this. This is resourceful and hungry individuals who now have time to explore their strengths and interests. They…

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Thankful This Thanksgiving

This is an excerpt from my weekly real estate newsletter. I’ve expanded upon it for my blog. 2020. What a year. To most this has been a very difficult and stressful year. Heck, to all it’s been that. I, annoying to most, am a glass half full person. Maybe it’s my distant understanding of stoicism…

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Why we ordered a Tesla Model Y 2021

Something very exciting happened the other weekend. Now this was not years in the making nor was it a spur of the moment decision. And yet, I am stoked about it. We ordered a new Tesla Model Y! Before I get any further, here’s my referral link: https://www.tesla.com/referral/niklaus72480 Quite frankly, I was not in the…

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Favorite Advice from Naval Ravikant

I was recently sent this collection podcast clips and thoroughly enjoyed the concepts in Naval Ravikant talks about. He explains what wealth really means, how to create, and the characteristics to develop in pursuing it. It’s based on his tweet storm where he touches on these topics in short bursts. He spends time explaining what…

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My ‘Fellow of Information Privacy’ Application

I recently obtained my Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), one of the highest designations awarded to privacy professionals by the International Associate of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). More details here. I posted my acheivement on LinkedIn to a surprising amount of support. See here. I thought it might be interesting to share my application for the…

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Free Business Idea: Democratize Data

In this new series I’ll post pitch decks and business ideas from year’s past. All are in different stages and phases on being thought out. This first idea, Democratize Data, is about Cutting the Carrier Cord. No longer pay for minutes and texts on top of data. Get a non-data enabled device to connect to…

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Team Culture

As the teams I work with have grown over the past 3 years, I find it important to set the right tone and expectations for new members of the team. I put together a Culture Deck which I review with anyone new as part of their onboarding process. Some companies have defined culture traits and…

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What Else?

This is quickly becoming my favorite phrase. My favorite sales manager and friend uses this all the time when speaking to customers and whenever we just catch up to vent with each other. At first it was a bit jarring, ‘What do you mean what else? I just complained for 15 minutes.’ But then I…

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