Entrepreneurship: Why It’s Not about You
Looking across the living room of his expansive flat in Hong Kong’s tony Victoria Peak neighborhood, Peter Hamilton spoke in
Fortune
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Soaring Success, Devastating Failure: A Samurai’s Story
“So, boy. You wish to serve me?”
Silhouetted against the blue-black sky, the horse-mounted samurai with the horned helmet towered over me
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In Praise of Salaried Employment
“The laborer’s day ends with the going down of the sun, and he is then free to devote himself to
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On Making Mistakes
In my school days I was the painfully reticent kid in the back of the class who paid attention, behaved
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The Elements of (Life)Style
A slim sourcebook for writers, The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White is a veritable classic, thoroughly instructive
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How to Create Wealth, How to Keep Wealth
Wealth is made in concentration—and maintained in diversification
A friend recently transitioned from his safe but standing-still job into a promising
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The Anchovy’s Rules of Goodwill & Good Work
Recently a famous, award-winning author invited some literary cronies and I to visit him at his rural getaway. “C’mon over,”
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What the Bricklayer Taught Me About Life, Death, & Work
Our Soul Shelter First-Person Essay Award bronze prize of $250 went to Florida writer Vance H. White for “The Bard of
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Knuckling Down to the Hard Work of Writing
My Dad had some choice 1930s phrases for exhorting us to work hard and act with integrity:
“Knuckle down!”
“Put some elbow
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Dogs & Dolphins
It’s a joy to present the Second Place Winner in our Soul Shelter First-Person Essay Award. Writer Yuvi Zalkow receives $500 for
