Over the course of a year, I have written down the principles I rely on to make me happy. These are them. — Happiness is a collection of small moments that make you smile. These moments happen every single day. Realize them when you’re in those moments. Seek them out. Everything you do is part of a journey. Relish the process. Always remember to play. Let the people around you feel your energy…

A formula for how to make significant progress on the things that matter in your work and life — *Puts phone down, takes another sip of coffee.* I look up at my clock — 3:30 pm. Where has this day gone? I’ve done almost no valuable work, and made zero progress on the things that matter. But I’ve been busy! I have hardly left my desk, and my head…

What I discovered from analysing 1,294 failed startups — In the past year, our business has seen over 11,000 applications for finance through our business finance marketplace. These businesses range in size from no revenue through to hundreds of millions of dollars. The majority of our declined applications come from early-stage startups. Naturally, we want to keep these businesses…

With big-time investors like Andreessen-Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, will the product live up to the hype? — Have you ever wanted to bet on a person? You meet someone, through school or university, and you just think to yourself; Man, whatever that guy does, he’s going to knock it out the park. You just know that whatever they are working on is going to be a success…

It was pouring with rain this morning. The cold, wintery, soaking kind of rain. I stepped outside, was instantly drenched, and my mind reverted to my warm duvet and comfortable bed. Not today. I took a deep breath, put my headphones in, and committed to 500 meters. If I got…

It’s taken me over three years to build layers of resilience and fitness into my body. My aerobic “engine” is well developed, and I can run at a relatively fast pace (6.4 min/mile) at a very comfortable aerobic-level heart rate (<140bpm). That comes from layers and layers of consistent training…

One of the most common misconceptions of becoming a good runner is that the only way to get better is to spend every single minute of training at your limits — huffing and puffing, legs burning. Nothing could be further from the truth. The 80/20 principle applies: 80% of your…