“That’s the question everyone is asking these days, Andrew. What’s the new system? What’s the new system?” One of the top thinkers of our day said this during a private meeting I was in. It was me, her, and Andrew Yang. …

This essay is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of a book I was writing about my time building Andrew Yang’s 2020 campaign from Zero to Movement. Read more here. “Okay, let’s do a run-through and make sure we have everything,” Katie says, standing commander style in the living room amongst…

This essay is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of a book I was writing about my time building Andrew Yang’s 2020 campaign from Zero to Movement. Read more here. Have you ever noticed that presidents tend to have distinct, memorable, and well-penned signatures? During my first week on the campaign…

Consciousness has long been touted as the human advantage. …

We live in a couple’s world, more than that really, a communal, socially intoxicated world. Being social is part of the human experience, historians and anthropologists theorize that our fiendish desire to be included in things originates from a learned evolutionary bias: if you became a social outcast during hunter-gatherer…

When you discover the ego, you become fixated on it. You crumble to pieces when you realize you’ve been living under a fake persona craving worthiness. You spend every waking moment trying to find out why you’ve needed to prove yourself. You study your childhood and dig for old stories…

What does it mean to die young? Many months ago, I was visiting the famous New York City to attend an event of curious young persons who ask big questions. On the final day of the event, we gathered in Rockefeller Park just by World Trade Center One. …

The startup journey certainly is a woeful one and that story has been no different for Advano than it has been for any other long-storied startup. Especially when it comes to hardware. — Advano is 10-man startup out of Silicon Valley that does batteries. More specifically, Advano does lithium-ion batteries with new applied technology using surface functionalized silicon nanoparticles. Which, to me, and likely you, is one of those things I hear, have no idea what it means, but it sounds intense. …

Today, we investigate the world and its challenges through the lens of one badass world-storyteller. My friend J.J. Kelley will take us on a ride through some projects he has covered first-hand such as Joseph Kony, the Congo Civil War, the Murderous Drug-Crisis in the Philippines and even some treachery…