Meditation has been a game changer for me, and by that I don't mean doing a formal structured practice with all of the related dogma.
Q: If you had one extra hour of free time a day, how would you spend it?Ī: Definitely meditating. The latter is less about the quality of the book and author, but rather the life-changing and far-reaching significance of understanding how to leverage the 80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle) across virtually every facet of life and work.Ī: I would have to say chocolate, coffee (the actual beans right after grinding), and-stay with me here-the smell of the remnants of red wine in a Riedel Bordeaux glass the next day. Q: What book has influenced you greatly? How?Ī: So many books, hard to pick just one probably a tie between 'On the Shortness of Life' by Seneca and “The 80/20 Principle'' by Richard Koch. Q: If you had your own talk show, who would your first three guests be?Ī: Hopefully this talk show would allow for deceased guests, as I would choose Stoic philosophers Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and then probably Silicon Valley investor-meets-philosopher Naval Ravikant as the third. He lives with his wife, Julia, and new baby, Roman, in Mill Valley, California, and misses visiting his hometown of Wayzata and brother Nick in Minneapolis due to the pandemic.
Paul Sebastien ʼ87 finds himself oscillating somewhere between Silicon Valley crypto-blockchain libertarian and forest-bathing Marin naturalist.
