Announcing My New Podcast: Talkin’ ‘Bout Praxis

I’m now co-host of a podcast, titled Talkin’ ‘Bout Praxis, and we launched our first episode today! In this podcast, Praxis Education Director T.k. Coleman and I interview our program participants and alumni about their Praxis experiences — what brought them to Praxis, what they worked on in the program, where they apprenticed, what they …

Study Notes: Jordan Harbinger/Jocko Willink Interview

The Interview: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/jocko-willink-why-discipline-beats-motivation-every-time/ The Analysis: coaching insights from a warrior (ex Navy SEAL). Notes jotted in chronological order (a few with rough time stamps) and taken from a coaching perspective. The Notes: •if Jocko could tell his 20-year-old self anything, it would be that he doesn’t know anything. Growth happens in five year increments — …

Exercise Day 9

The Excerpt: “The following morning Bida went carousing. He smashed Saint Valentine’s shrine in the church and tried to play the organ. He was wearing a jacket that had been cut from a blue carpet and had an embroidered lily on its back, and he had combed his sweat-drenched forelock over his gouged-out eye.” — …

Exercise Day 8

The Excerpt: “This happened not too long ago. A British flag was hoisted above the Paris. The Paris was the Russian steamer Juliet, abducted by the Whites in 1919. Juliet sailed the Mediterranean and the Sea of Marmara for four years, and then joined the Anatolian Line. Last December, she sailed from Constantinople to Zunguldak …