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Compensation as a Filtering Tool
Compensation as a Filtering Tool

Instead of using the tool, many allow the tool to use them by having financial & mental security, lifestyle, sense of worth, social status and many other factors be tied to compensation.

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EssaysDaniel LeeFebruary 10, 2020OMD VenturesCareers, Business
Describing Writing in 3rd Person.
Describing Writing in 3rd Person.

I often wonder what someone else must be thinking. The moment I come out of bed to the moment I grab my morning coffee to when I sit down to get to work… there are moments I wonder what the people around me must be thinking. It’s something I’ll never truly know but can’t help wonder.

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EssaysDaniel LeeFebruary 3, 2020OMD VenturesIntrospection, Business
Practicing Talking to Myself Every Day
Practicing Talking to Myself Every Day

Answering a friend’s questions on my experience writing daily journals for five years. 

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EssaysDaniel LeeJanuary 27, 2020OMD VenturesCareers, Habits
Evolving to Soft Systems
Evolving to Soft Systems

Learning to let go of control through system creation.

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EssaysDaniel LeeJanuary 20, 2020OMD VenturesHabits
Framework to Define "Smart"
Framework to Define "Smart"

You want smart friends, smart colleagues, smart leaders and hire smart employees. But how does one go about determining if someone is ’smart’?

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EssaysDaniel LeeJanuary 13, 2020OMD Ventures
The Range of Slavery to Freedom
The Range of Slavery to Freedom

From selling the self to the creative product. 

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EssaysDaniel LeeJanuary 7, 2020OMD VenturesCareers, Talent
Identifying Fear & Learning to Sit with It.
Identifying Fear & Learning to Sit with It.

Like my height, I can’t control feeling fear or anxiety but a practice of laughing at a fear of being sub-optimal has helped.

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EssaysDaniel LeeDecember 17, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection
Empathy Requires Curiosity
Empathy Requires Curiosity

People skills isn’t a strength. Nor is empathy.

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EssaysDaniel LeeDecember 9, 2019OMD VenturesCareers, Habits
For What Purpose Do I Write?
For What Purpose Do I Write?

A reminder for my future and present self when I’m visited by the devil of resistance.

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EssaysDaniel LeeDecember 2, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection, Careers, Business
The Story. How I Got to Utopias.
The Story. How I Got to Utopias.

My journey into finding a problem worth solving. How I decided to tackle the problem of creating utopian organizations.

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EssaysDaniel LeeNovember 25, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection, Careers
Two Years Without Social Media
Two Years Without Social Media

The good, bad, and struggles of making the phone my tool instead of the other way around.

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EssaysDaniel LeeNovember 18, 2019OMD VenturesCareers, Habits
Three Minutes with A Blind Man
Three Minutes with A Blind Man

How helping a blind man cross the street made me lament my own foolishness and that of the people around me.

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EssaysDaniel LeeNovember 11, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection
Analyzing Regret and its World of Assumptions.
Analyzing Regret and its World of Assumptions.

Much like how people wear the "I work 100hrs a week" as a badge of self-validation, having "no regrets" in life is becoming something similar.

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EssaysDaniel LeeOctober 28, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection
Moments in Amsterdam
Moments in Amsterdam

A 5'6" Torontonian's observations from the city with tall urinals.

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EssaysDaniel LeeOctober 7, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection
Not Investing In People Can Cost Your Startup $4M Annually.
Not Investing In People Can Cost Your Startup $4M Annually.

Upon speaking with more than a hundred leaders and managers, the vast majority confronted an investment in people with skepticism and asked for guaranteed, data-proven facts showing it would work. So, I decided to calculate the millions of dollars it would cost them if they didn't.

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EssaysDaniel LeeSeptember 24, 2019OMD VenturesBusiness
Per Hours of Practice, I Should Be a Musician or Dancer. Not An Accountant.
Per Hours of Practice, I Should Be a Musician or Dancer. Not An Accountant.

It's hilarious to think the limitation placed on acquisition of skills by conventional short-termism.

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EssaysDaniel LeeSeptember 18, 2019OMD VenturesCareers
Finding Motivation For Meaning.
Finding Motivation For Meaning.

What does it mean when I have all the freedom I want but I'm not tap dancing out of bed in excitement?

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EssaysDaniel LeeSeptember 11, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection
Animals Aren't Savage. Humans Are.
Animals Aren't Savage. Humans Are.

Tigers don't kill needlessly. They kill to eat.

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EssaysDaniel LeeSeptember 3, 2019OMD VenturesBusiness
Do We Ever Fit In? Should We Bother?
Do We Ever Fit In? Should We Bother?

The desire to fit-in starts early, at least for me. The bigger the gap, the greater the desire became.

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EssaysDaniel LeeAugust 27, 2019OMD VenturesCareers
You Don't Start With Purpose. You Stumble Into It.
You Don't Start With Purpose. You Stumble Into It.

One can't live a life with purpose without living one purely for the riches of the world and the opinions of others.

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EssaysDaniel LeeAugust 20, 2019OMD VenturesCareers
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