Mo Shafieeha

It doesn't matter what reason a person, animal, or thing left your life (death, rehoming, lost item, etc.) you can be incredibly attached to and grieve for them. When we experience pain, we have to find ways to resolve it. Grief is a state of pain and a state of wanting, which is the catalyst for activation. When someone we know goes, we get into... See more

Most of us encounter steep learning curves as well as wobbly balancing acts as parents, but in recent decades, parents have been left to face those challenges with heavier career responsibilities and fewer support systems. Families with dual incomes and single-working parents are on the rise, mothers are the fastest growing segment of the... See more

No doubt the taste system is involved in feeding us nutrients to sustain our lives - we're attracted to the nutrients we need and we're deterred from the ones we don't. Even if your brain doesn't get stimulated by water, certain parts of your brain get the entire behavioral stimulus.

Malnutrition is more commonly caused by overnutrition (as a result of processed food consumption) than by a lack of food in the modern world. The gut-brain axis gets dysregulated when you eat processed foods, so you keep eating more.

It's impossible to overstate how important getting good sleep is for mental, cognitive, and performance health. If you get direct morning sunlight 30-60 minutes after you wake up, helps you fall asleep and stay asleep at night, while optimizing cortisol and adenosine production. You can increase alertness by waking up in the morning, increasing... See more

Stage 2: Limited UX work is not done routinely, nor is it consistently well-executed or incorporated into strategy and planning. There's no official recognition of user experience as a discipline. There are no UX-dedicated roles, processes, or budget for this stage in development.

If you concentrate on org structure alone, you can fix whole class problems by tweaking the culture or changing the incentive system. Every solution to an organizational design problem requires restructuring. There will always be problems in a newly formed organization, just because you haven't discovered or experienced them yet, but that's the... See more

If you want leaders, you might want to throw high-potential people into the water first. Executive development is probably a different game than individual contributor training. Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things has a chapter called 'Why Startups Should Train Their People,' in which he makes the same point. According to Horowitz, the... See more