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In 1994, I was working for HBO at a low-level programming job. I had begged for the job and I wasn’t qualified but they gave it to me anyway because my boss’s boss’s boss was a fan of chess and he accidentally saw me playing in the park after I failed the interview. My job […]

  I give up. And I changed. And I wanted to immerse myself in something new. Yet again. There’s no one “ism” that will define a good life Surrendering to change, embracing it, rolling with it, understanding it, loving it, hating it, experimenting with it, mastering it, is the key to loving it. Surrendering to […]

I was fully supportive (but very sad) when a girlfriend many years ago aborted a baby we would’ve had. I am fervently pro-choice. I will never be otherwise. She didn’t tell me she was doing it. She told me she was pregnant. Told me she needed to be alone. She was crying and then hung […]

The best way to have a voice in the world is to speak. The best way to change the world is to keep improving yourself. The only thing you truly have an effect on. The best way to improve yourself is to every day try and improve 1% physically, emotionally, creatively, spiritually. The best way […]

Paul McCartney’s guitar string broke. He couldn’t play it anymore. The Beatles were just starting, nobody knew them, and they were playing eight hours a day in strip clubs in Hamburg just to pay the bills. He had no other guitar. There was a piano on the stage but he had never before played the […]

I was told that within one day I was going to lose all of my money. It was a complete surprise. I got a phone call for an emergency board meeting. “Maybe good news!” I thought. Leaving out the details, I’ll just go straight to what the CEO said, “We broke one of the rules […]

I failed. I dropped off my kid at college the other day. I didn’t want her to go to college. In 2005 or 2006 I wrote a column in The Financial Times that nobody should go to college anymore. I then wrote a book, “40 Alternatives to College”. For a long time that book was […]