Choosing to be happy
During my undergraduate years at BYU, one of my professors assigned Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, which made a deep impression on me. Frankl lived through a horrific experience in a Nazi...
View ArticleOur creativity deficit disorder
Maybe it's because we don't read anymore. Maybe we don't know how to imagine things, and instead must have images shoved into our brains. Or maybe, just maybe, today's entertainers simply lack ability...
View ArticleA New Year, and lots of reasons to hope
Yesterday I was fortunate to teach Gospel Doctrine in our ward. Given recent events in my own and others' lives, I wanted to talk about hope.Here is the outline for my lesson. Hopefully you'll find...
View ArticleOn being openly gay...or openly religious
I'm not gay. But I admire Business Insider's Josh Barro's reasons for being openly gay. To paraphrase Barro, "Being open and unashamed about being [religious] is just one small thing I can do to change...
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A New Year...and Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Pie
As 2013 ends and 2014 nears, I thought I'd share the one pie that I came up with all by myself. Well, that's not true. While I didn't follow any particular recipe, I did rely on others' recipes to help...
View Article"What Shall We Do?" - Finding Answers (and Happiness)
Today I'm giving a talk in the Yalecrest 2nd Ward, thinking through the question asked in Acts and throughout the Book of Mormon: "What Shall We Do?" Here's my outline, if you're interested.A. At some...
View ArticleThis week I made a friend
Friendship is a dangerous thing. Not once you're obviously friends with someone, but rather that moment when you suspect you might be friends with someone but it hasn't yet been confirmed by them. When...
View ArticleA much more positive perspective on repentance
Each week I write to the missionaries from my LDS ward, as well as to my cousin. This week I was thinking a lot about repentance - what it means, how it works, etc. In my studies, I was reviewing the...
View ArticleWhat religion has taught me about business
So apparently I’m in the right religion to be a CEO. At least, according to Amy Chua’s new book, co-written with her husband (and my former Constitutional Law professor), Jed Rubenfeld. In a nutshell,...
View ArticleAll Business Is Personal
There must be jobs that don't involve working with other people. I don't happen to have one of them, nor would I want one. The longer I work, the more I discover how essential people are to the...
View ArticleWhy Trust Is the Foundation for Economies and Homes
The foundation of any economy is trust. Thus spake Francis Fukuyama years ago, and thus I see on a regular basis in my own work. Companies thrive on trust. So do families. Indeed, every organization...
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Because You Chose Her
The same lady has been cutting my hair for roughly 25 years. As we talked this week, she started relating how her ex-husband treats his new fiancée, doing things for her that he refused to do for his...
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Snapped
Last night I snapped. It wasn't the opportune time for a breakdown. We were starting Family Home Evening and, well, it's supposed to be a family bonding time. Like this:Instead it was more like an...
View ArticleMy Own Unexpected Journey
Friday is my last day at MongoDB. Monday is my first day at Adobe, where I'll be heading up mobile strategy for Adobe's digital marketing business. This wasn't a change I expected two months ago, but...
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So why exactly did you choose Adobe?
As hard as it has been to make the decision to leave MongoDB and join Adobe, I haven't said nearly enough about why I'm so excited to start at Adobe on November 3.And I am. Extraordinarily excited....
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The highlight reels of our social media lives
I don't write as often as I used to. Not on my blog, not in my journal. Because, well, Facebook. Or Instagram. It's just easier to pretend to be witty in a sentence or two than demonstrate I'm not in a...
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My fascination street
I remember driving with friends up Provo Canyon sometime around 1990 to The Cure's "Fascination Street." Actually, it was the whole Disintegration album, but that's the song I remember, particularly...
View ArticleThe burden of what I know
In a note to some close friends today, I said this:One of the great things about community is that it puts us in contact with all sorts of people who are different from us. That's also the terrible...
View ArticleGo Set a Watchman (The complexities of conscience)
Go Set a Watchman was written first, but it's right that it has been published after To Kill a Mockingbird. And, fittingly, well after.After we've had time to prop up Atticus as a hero, as a perfect...
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A day I needed saving
Yesterday wasn't Ryan Hobson's best race. Nor did it go according to plan for Matt Hemmert.And yet both of these Adobe colleagues ensured that I would complete a race that I desperately wanted to quit....
View ArticleLearning to be real
I think I've struggled my entire life with how much I was supposed to be a real person, or how much I was supposed to plaster on a facade of what the perfect me would look like. Some day. When I was...
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Mother
Each Mother's Day I get flowers for Jen, but also for my three daughters. I have long wanted them to reverence the calling of "mother." It took me 20 years to appreciate my dad, but I came out of the...
View ArticleA friend in need
Sweltering through the smother of rush hour on the Central Line this morning, jet lagged and missing family, I felt profoundly weary. I had to prepare for my meetings, but all I could think about was a...
View ArticleWhat winning looks like
A friend sent this to me this morning:C: “H, did you know that every week Matt Asay goes to England or France just to get fancy candy to give to our primary kids at church on Sundays?”It's not true. I...
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Getting off Instagram and Facebook was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I went dark on Instagram on May 25, 2017. My last post on Facebook was February 25, 2017. I dumped Facebook for a...
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