This is a running list of essays, articles and posts I’ve written.
If you’re not sure where to start try:
- Life Lesson I Learned from Playing Soccer with Pelé That Will Help You
- The Thing You Need to Know About Hard Things
- How I Built an Online Business of My Dreams, or
- A Partner from Sequoia Capital Showed up At My Door
List of other essays:
- A Two Time Gold Metalist from the 2024 Summer Olympics Showed Up on My Doorstep
- The Visualization Technique That Got Me My Dream House
- The Squirrel and the Winter’s Whim: The Difference Between Planning and Preparing
- Your Wallet and The New 2025 Big Beautiful Tax Bill: 6 Things Business Owners Need to Know
- The Final Exam Question
- The Best Investment Advice I Ever Received
- How to Write SMART Goals
- Flow State: What the research says and how to get into a flow state
- A Man with a Flat Tire on a Country Road with No Jack
- The Ideal Vacation Length
- Charles M. Schwab Paid Over $400,000 for This Daily Routine That He and His Team Used for Peak Productivity – The Ivy Lee Method
- A Lesson About Achieving Your Goals
- Slay Your Dragon
- Time Boxing
- Lesson From the Recent Rain Storms Here In Northern California
- Forget About Keeping Up with the Joneses. Here’s why.
- Use This Instead of Motivation to Achieve Habits and Your Goals
- How to be Happy
- 12 Qualities That Make the Best Team Members
- Lesson in Leading a Team That Will Make You Great
- An Investment Banker Called and Asked Me to Lunch
- How to Turn $1,000 into $22,915.26
- Bust a Belief to Launch Your Life
- Million Dollar Lesson from Bug Spray
- How Many Frogs Are Left in This Math Problem?
- Lesson Learned from Changing the Plan that Will Help You
- Getting Out of Your Own Way
- Love, Loss and Customer Service
- A Marketing Plan That Fits on a Note Card
- How Do You Compare to Your Peers?
- How To Get Customers To Love Your Brand
- How Font Size Affects An Audience
- The Metaverse
- What You Need To Know About The Effects of Salary Transparency
- The Best Marketing Channels
- Simple Business Plan Template
- The Standard Business Plan Format
- How to Write a Business Plan
- Your Elevator Pitch For Your Business Plan – Slide 1
- How to Increase Your Email Open Rates
- How Font Size Effects an Email Audience
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** This list is not every essay I’ve written. A lot never made it from the newsletter to this blog. I’m working on getting the full list of essays up to date slowly.
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last updated August, 2025