The first thing I do in the morning is check my to-do list. I have been using the same app on my phone for the last seven years. But something was different today. The app received a major facelift ...

As the saying goes, only dead fish go with the flow. But Nicholas Syhler, co-founder of medical startup Embla, disagrees. "Flow, here in our world, means culture," he told CNBC's My Biggest Lessons.