One of my favorite songs as an adult is “One of These Days” by Neil Young. The lyrics speak to me so strongly. One of these days I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter

Many of you may have seen this recent New York Times magazine feature on the social life of forests. “Resources tend to flow from the oldest and biggest trees to the youngest and smallest. Chemical alarm signals generated by one tree prepare nearby trees for danger. Seedlings severed from the forest’s underground lifelines are much more likely to die than their networked counterparts.

My friend Seth Godin introduced me to Ngram that tracks words used in books over the last 200 years. Here’s what a million authors and a billion readers think. He then wrote a blog post about what’s trending: smart, generous, or kind. Kindness wins.

An MEA alum recently asked me, “What could be my most powerful resolution for 2021?” I told him that “learning how to learn” would offer him huge collateral benefits. The magic of our MEA workshop curriculum is just that.

A year is made up of days. A day is made up of minutes. You can influence your year by choosing how you invest those minutes. I recommend you invest four minutes and 25 seconds watching this video that MEA alum Joey Del Hierro sent me that reminds us, even in a quarantined pandemic, beautiful music can be made.

A caterpillar consumes. A chrysalis transforms. A butterfly pollinates.

Do not expect cocooning To be easy. It is not a time of rest But of rebirth. They used to think That the Caterpillar

In college, I had back to back “Hell Weeks,” one as a freshman on the national champion water polo team and one as a pledge in my fraternity. A week felt like a year. Well, this year felt like a decade.

As depicted in this video I shot just down the beach from MEA a few days ago, baby sea turtles can be our entrepreneurial mentors in a pandemic. Climbing out of a hole. Trusting intuition. Creating some momentum. Getting stuck in sandtraps. Resilience. Taking time to rest.

As detailed in Part 1 of this interview yesterday, Dr. Danny received the news that he has terminal cancer, a grade 4 glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive form of primary brain cancer. This interview is meant to shine the light on the lessons Danny is experiencing in the 30+ days since he received his diagnosis as, while it’s impossible to predict his end of life, averages would suggest 15 months.