It’s not necessary to make your passion a profession (and you probably shouldn’t).
Inc Authority Let me type the most hypocritical sentence of my life. It is bad…
It’s not necessary to make your passion a profession (and you probably shouldn’t).
Inc Authority Let me type the most hypocritical sentence of my life. It is bad advice to tell people to turn their passion into a career, especially if they are talented enough to do so. Yes, I say this as someone who 1) loves to write and 2) makes a living by, you guessed, writing….
What Offers Should You Not Accept?
Everybody wants to receive the offer Johnson made to Hicks. Everyone wants to have the power doors thrown wide open. They want to hear, ” Here you go They think this is what will happen. Just don’t understand the dangers of this path. They don’t understand the strings attached and how their freedom is more valuable than anything…
You can be successful without being insufferable
It is a surprising benefit that my income is largely linked to my Twitter activity. I have met some very interesting people on Twitter over the past couple of years: writers, podcasters and entrepreneurs, as well as investors, researchers, athletes, researchers and anonymous meme page shitposters. It is a surprising benefit that I live in…
Why we should have more children
Caesar Augustus became the first Roman Emperor in 27 BC. Augustus is widely regarded as one of Rome’s most important leaders. His reign began the 200-year pax romana. The Roman Empire thrived in this period because of its excellent transportation and sewer infrastructure, which supported densely populated cities. Rome alone had an estimated 1 million residents….
The Benefits of Delayed Success
Two stories about celebrities. Johnny Manziel, two days after turning 20, was at the top of his game. As a rookie quarterback, still one year from reaching the legal drinking-age, Johnny Manziel set conference records and knocked Alabama off their pedestal in 2012. He won college football’s crown jewel, The Heisman Trophy, that same year. Many…
Judas Iscariot: Did he make the worst deal in history?
Easter Sunday is the most important day in the Bible for the two billion Christians who live on earth. Jesus Christ smashed death with a pump-fake and escaped the tomb. We celebrate by taking photos with men dressed in bunny outfits and sending kids on treasure hunts to find candy and eggs filled with…
The Metaverse was a Pandemic Pipe Dream.
In the first chapter of The Reality Bug the fourth novel of the Pendragon series, Bobby Pendragon is walking through Rubic City in Veelox, a foreign metropolis. Rubic City has paved streets, towering skyscrapers and is very similar to Bobby’s Earth. However, there is a striking difference. There are no people. Rubic City is a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, where the…
Writing Online: The Economics of Writing Online
Some Brief Updates I am a radical advocate of transparency and want to let you know the current state of Young Money. Here are a few updates. Young Money’s first two sponsors Please fill out this 8-question survey. I didn’t sell Forbes my blog for $5M (I love April Fools Day). You may have noticed that the welcome…
How to create your own luck
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “luck” as ” an event or circumstance that works for or against a person. “ It is easy to identify good and bad luck: It is good luck to bet on red and have the ball land on Red 23, The ball rolling into Red 23 and then ricocheting back to Black 10…
What is the “Writing Online Thing”?
Some careers are well-defined and have a clear path to success. If you want to make partner at a prestigious law firm, for example, you need to crush the LSAT, attend law school at Yale/Harvard/Georgetown/something similar, clerk with a top firm one summer, secure an offer, spend a couple of years doing grunt work, then climb…
