On Quora, I was asked: How do people react to moving from a high to a low standard of living? This is how I responded: Living a high standard of living? Oh, how I miss those days… In my youth, when I grew up, I was raised by an amazing family. We would’ve been considered, … Read more
When I was about two or three years old, I started growing up with my grandparents, Robert and Nancy Landis, as opposed to my mother. My grandparents had raised me as if I was their own child. Robert Landis, my grandfather was the most influential person in my youth. He loved me with all his … Read more
Someone on Quora asked: I am a solo entrepreneur in my 20s and I do not socialize with friends at all due to my schedule; will I regret this later on in life? This was my response: Don’t buy into all the hype. Socializing isn’t all it’s cut out to be. I spent most of … Read more
Humility Humility is one of the key components to living a successful life. Whether or not you believe you’re going to change the world, be a billionaire, or even discover a cure for some incurable disease, no one is going to like you if you don’t have humility. They say the top is a very lonely … Read more
Back at the beginning of January, an Angel had informed me that he wanted to meet. We decided to get dinner and spoke for four hours, about life, Quora, and many other things. I think I was the more curious one, because I kept asking him what he did with all his free time. I … Read more
There was once a time, a little over two years ago… When I had gone to Santa Monica, California, for a launch party that the tech start-up, Zaarly, was holding. A few colleagues and myself decided to have a discussion. Everyone was going around the table defining what they though to be the answer to this … Read more
Every day, for the last 10 years of my life, I had to do something I hated, to survive. I had to talk to people. I had jobs in sales, customer support, management, etc. All these jobs required for me to do something I strongly despised. Talking. Not only did I have to just talk, … Read more
What are realistic ways for one to become rich? The question really isn’t how to get rich, but more along the lines of why you want to get rich. Toyota had implemented a philosophy that they use based around five questions that are designed to troubleshoot and resolve most of the problems they have in … Read more
The only things people want are Love, Entertainment, to be Happy, Money, and Better Health (to feel better). These are the primary motivating factors to the decisions that each person makes. This should bring some insight as to why I made the decisions I did. I wrote the following on June 26th, 2013: Sometimes I … Read more