There’s no reason you should particularly care about this, but my writing routine this week has been significantly shifted. During the window when I’d normally be writing this — which is always much closer to the deadline than I wish it were — I will be playing chauffeur. I’m driving my mother a...

It wasn’t her intent, but for years I was consistently outsmarted by my thirteen-year-old neighbor. That experience has been on my mind all week as I conducted not one but two focus groups. The subject: my new companion app for the Science of Getting Rich Journal. And, as in my many inte...

As is often the case, nanoseconds after you decide to focus on something, its exact opposite jumps out in front of you. This often feels like a cosmic jump scare — the real-life equivalent of the horror movie technique guaranteed to frighten the viewer. For example, someone innocent opens a medi...

Like most good ideas, it seems incredibly obvious … but only after it’s been perfectly executed.  Before then it’s easy to criticize, even attack. This week, during one of my Harvard Business School Foundry program lectures, a noted venture capitalist — wearing the traditional fleece v...

I admit that I was tempted for a moment. Yet, since it felt a little disloyal, I sailed right past the opportunity. Last Friday, after leaving a small funeral service for one of my mother’s friends, I stopped by the library to pick up a few books I had on reserve. Since it was directly on the...

Sometimes, a road trip is necessary. Or at least it simply feels that way. It certainly did for me this week and, even though it often feels like I’m chained to my laptop, I set off with Vlad and my mother through the backroads of Connecticut in search of yet another rare book, one I suddenly fe...

I’ve found it exceedingly rare in real life that I ever get so straightforward an apology. To set the context: Although September will always be “Back to School” month for me — and I’m launching my own new course HERE — I finished 99% of my Harvard Business School Foundry Bootcamp coursework in ...

Like pretty much everyone, Dolly Parton’s passing touched me in ways I hadn’t anticipated. Unique and utterly irreplaceable, she unsurprisingly topped a recent national favorability poll, scoring more than 50 points higher than every politician and pop star surveyed. Story after story focus...

This shouldn’t be happening. At least, that’s what I kept thinking. Yet after the third failure — and after I’d even called the clerk over to the self-checkout lane — it became obvious that something was seriously amiss. Even though I’d come straight from the bank, where I’d successfully made...