Essays
Every essay, newest first.
01Ramit Sethi’s Money RulesStop asking $3 questions and start asking $30,000 questions. Every day we wake up, there are a million money-related decisions we can make. Should…Jul 21, 2020 · 15 min read
02Life Lessons Learned as a CaddieThe rules of caddying are simple: “show up, keep up, shut up, and don’t lose a ball.” When I was 14, I begged my parents to buy me a new set of golf…Jul 6, 2020 · 6 min read
0312 Favorite ProblemsWhat are your current 12 favorite problems? What are the questions that inspire you and captivate you? These are hard problems and they don’t have…Jul 2, 2020 · 1 min read
04Chicago, My Kind of TownIn the last scene of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy wakes up surrounded by her family. She looks around to see the faces of the people she loves and says,…Jun 1, 2020 · 12 min read
05The Cost of ConsistencyReflections from five weeks in an online writing course You probably already write. You may have a journal, an old blog, or a semi-active Twitter…Apr 30, 2020 · 10 min read
06The Future of EducationMainstream live online education is coming sooner than we expected. If you haven’t noticed the trend, you will soon. Thanks to new technologies like…Apr 21, 2020 · 5 min read
07The Power of TwitterBeing on Twitter in 2020 is like being in a famous Parisian café in 1800. Café Procope in Paris was the center of the literary and philosophic life…Apr 6, 2020 · 7 min read
08Robo Investment Advisors are a ScamShould you trust your hard-earned retirement portfolio to a robot? The math doesn’t lie. The answer is a resounding NO. All automated investment…Mar 18, 2020 · 4 min read
09The Best of Nick MaggiulliHow often have you seen statements like this? I have not been investing for a very long time. I certainly have never invested through a recession.…Mar 9, 2020 · 6 min read
10Coronavirus and Remote WorkThe biggest worldwide story over the last month has been the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, first identified by health authorities in Wuhan,…Mar 3, 2020 · 6 min read
11The Definitive Answer to “Where are you from?”This may sound like an easy question to most of you, but when you grew up in four countries and seven cities before the age of 12, it can be somewhat…Feb 24, 2020 · 4 min read
12Getting Back into BloggingRecently, I have noticed more and more that the smartest people I follow on Twitter and on the internet have been blogging and sharing their writing.…Oct 17, 2019 · 1 min read
13How to Get More Out of SnapchatThere is one common denominator I see that people struggle with when they use social networks like Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and most recently…Feb 16, 2015 · 1 min read
14I Found a New Job“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.” – Winston Churchill Last week was officially my 4th anniversary at Quill – a…Jul 30, 2014 · 2 min read