And The Three Magic Words to Make Better Decisions and Improve Your Life. In this article I’ll explain why people cling to the status quo, and introduce a simple framework you can use to help you overcome this trap.

Thanksgiving is our nation’s official day of gratitude. It is our day to step back with our loved ones and give thanks for the blessings we have in our lives. But gratitude has value well beyond its expression on the fourth Thursday in November. Gratitude can help us silence our egos and find peace in our lives.

How a major knee injury taught me the value of advocating for myself, and how I healed in the process.

In January 2009, I also started my first-ever engagement with an executive coach named JP Flaum. It was through these coaching calls that I had the realization that changed everything and became one of the greatest turning points for Alpine.

My experience rowing at Princeton and how giving myself time to succeed (a long runway) has enabled me to achieve more than I thought possible.

How “The 100/100 rule”, the process of maximizing effort and achieving the highest probability of success, allowed Snow White to gross more than four times any other film in 1938, and as of 2019, still ranks as one of the top ten box office performers of all time, adjusted for inflation.

In the twenty years since founding Alpine, I’ve experienced my fair share of ups and downs. But Alpine nearly died before it began. This is the story of my first deal.

My lecture at Stanford GSB about hacks: Part 2 of the talk focuses on two game-changing "career hacks" you can implement to supercharge your career.

My lecture at Stanford GSB about hacks: part 1 of the talk focuses on the four “life” hacks you can implement to improve your life.

As Alpine celebrates its 20th anniversary, I reflect on my 27 years in private equity and the history of the industry as told through five deals: a greeting card company, the deal that inspired Barbarians at the Gate, a $700 mm pig farm, Chainsaw Al, and a tow truck company bought by two young Stanford search funders.

How attributes over experience, extreme empowerment, and building lifetime relationships helps us hire—and retain—the best of the best.

Choose winning habits and learn how to make them stick.

My takeaways from the recent Tony Robbins virtual seminar, “Unleash the Power Within.”
[Photo credit: Robbins Research International, Inc.]

Overwhelmed by a goal? Not sure where to start? Here is a simple path to making your goals much more actionable and thus, more achievable.

The greatest benefit of sleep is not measured in our physical health—it’s in our mindset.

For long-term caffeine drinkers, the “jolt” we feel after drinking caffeine doesn’t even return us to our normal baseline levels of alertness. In other words, caffeine doesn’t really “work.”

I had no idea of the tremendous cost of the distractions in my life until, by accident, they were gone. 

Once we recognize that self talk is a game and that we get to choose the rules, we can begin to unleash our best selves and live our best lives.

Learn to say “no” and narrow your focus, then scale your bright spots to determine where best to spend your energy.

How listening to audiobooks on my Sony Walkman in the '80s inspired a lifetime of asking the right questions, setting time to answer them, and daily goals.