What is the journey like to move from enlisting in the Navy at age 17, being recruited into the SEALs instead of going to law school, then serving as a SEAL Team member for twenty years, leading combat missions and helping to design and test new special operations capabilities while…

Photo by author In looking towards 2023, I wanted to weigh-in with my perspective on rethinking Effective Altruism and the pretension of plutocratic benevolence, along with a few how-to ideas for making the world a better place in 2023. The former plague of insouciance as to charitable giving seems to…

Tim Ferriss says that Derek Sivers is one of his “all-time favorite humans… a philosopher-king, programmer, master teacher, and merry prankster.” Derek is an international man of mystery, or maybe contradiction. He’s known and loved by millions, done three super-popular TED talks, but he prefers to be alone, certainly when…

Healthcare and medicine have long served as a hotbed of innovation. Perhaps the leading edge these days requires a paradigm shift — think digital therapeutics, Web3, the metaverse, CRISPR, Software as a Medical Device — this is the domain of Neil Littman, Founder & CEO of Bioverge, a highly curated…

I bet you are an Amazon Prime member, not because I’m clairvoyant, but because half of the US is. Half! Did you know that three-quarters of all product searches begin on Amazon, not Google, or a search engine? Or, did you know Amazon is valued at $1.6 trillion, and has…

Millions of people dream of living a more fulfilling life, yet many settle for a life of comfortable complacency, allowing excuses and negative thoughts to invade their minds. I don’t have enough time…I don’t have enough money…I’m afraid to fail…I don’t have what it takes — we allow these limiting…

I re-read Peter Singer’s book, The Life You Can Save (10th anniversary edition) in doing background for a recent episode of my show, Living a Life in Full, and the interview I did with Charlie Bresler, PhD. Turns out that Charlie and I have a great deal in common, and…

Extreme poverty has devastating effects on over 700 million people globally. Every year 5.3 million children, under the age of five, die, and more than half of these deaths could have been easily prevented if they would have been fortunate enough to have been born in the United States. In…

If you are familiar with my work and that of The Center for Global Initiatives, then you are likely already aware that our mission is to help in the creation of self-sustaining programs that improve access to healthcare in underserved communities throughout the world. …