Celebrating holidays
Why do we celebrate holidays on the same day? If you're willing to celebrate Thanksgiving a few weeks earlier, you'll save on airfare, travel headaches, and »
Packing autopilot
Packing is something that you should be able to do on autopilot. An easy way to know that you have everything you need when you’re »
Give people opportunities to change their minds
While proving that you're "right" is often rewarded in academic settings, direct confrontation often leads people to dig into their positions, making it difficult »
Breaking games down into smaller subgames
There's a large mental component to squash. While I try not to think about previous points and as hard as I try to remember that each »
Get consensus on the definition of success
Most success is a combination of skill and luck. Unfortunately, many people conflate past success with the ability to reproduce it. But, even if you make »
Playing one more game for the "championship"
Squash is both physically and mentally exhausting. When we decide to play more than five games to eleven, we play less aggressively because we're pacing ourselves, »
One conversation at dinner
Long tables in loud restaurants aren't well suited for conversation. In reality, you'll likely only talk to the people right next to you or right across »
Asking questions to get the information you want
People have lots of good ideas that never get shared. How you phrase questions about sensitive topics dramatically changes the substance of the answers you receive. »