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Writing good takes practice. Does that sentence strike you as odd? Shouldn’t it have been writing well takes practice? Writing is an art and a craft. As such, it, like jazz, combines classic rules with subjectivity and personality. Good writers know to bend the rules to get your attention.

Knowledge workers will increasingly work for themselves and not as an employee for a traditional company. The reasons are legion, but among them are flexibility, focus, and finances. One company making a big bet on this future is A.Team, a marketplace of high-caliber talent tackling big, complex problems for

Some things are more expensive than others, especially the things you want. That’s because other people want those things too. Supply and demand, being what it is, dictates that the price goes up. A higher price sends a signal to the rest of the economy that this thing is

If you watch productivity videos on YouTube—like this one—you’ll often see gurus seeking the “one” “ultimate” “system” that makes them successful, earns more money, and saves the most time. I like productivity videos. I like the apps, the journals, the videos’ aesthetic. I recently bought the Ultimate

A few years ago, a group of us at work were discussing politics when someone asked a question that stumped me for years. I forget what the topic was, but the group, being more politically progressive than I am, was proposing more regulation, laws that would inhibit whatever behavior we

A video created by Indeed called “Who is underpaid?” starts with a social experiment. A participant opens with this: “The fact that women only get 81 cents to the dollar, like, that’s a fact. Everyone knows that.” Then a narrator begins, “Turn your camera off if you make over

In 1513, an Italian politician named Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a treatise to help the newly appointed ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici, the grandson of Lorenzo the Great, gain and maintain power. The elder statesman Machiavelli sought to teach the young duke everything he knew about how to be a

Imagine your pastor steps up to the pulpit this Sunday and delivers an eloquent, easy-to-follow message on a particular passage of scripture. He or she provides context on where you are in the Bible, making clear the timeline of the book, its provenance, and its contents. You also hear dramatic

This week we’ve discussed readings on topics like statistics and markets. Reading all these works, however, led me to realize that I wasn’t thinking well in general. Now, if you don’t know the name Charlie Munger, I highly recommend you check him out. Charlie Munger is an

Capital markets represent the epitome of statistics plus irrationality. As John Maynard Keynes said, “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” Clear thinking about markets has become increasingly important to me, given the latest implosions and scandals that have rocked Wall Street of late. I’ll