If you’re a boring, unsuccessful, normal human, “quiet quitting” was something you heard about for a week in summer 2022. If you’re a genetically-modified corporate freak like me, you scour the internet every day for posts tagged “quiet quitting” and pump them directly into your bloodstream so you can start…

In this competitive world, it’s easy to feel that if you’re not moving forward, you’re falling behind. And competitive people can have a hard time knowing when “a little bit more” starts to be too much. Sometimes, we all need a friend (or an internet guru) to remind us that…

Who among us doesn’t have a dream to be the next king of Silicon Valley, sitting pretty on a throne of self-made success? We all have an idea that we think could be the next big startup; where we differ is preparation, dedication, and asturdation. Last week, the startup I…

No place in the world matters as much as the eight blocks between Broadway and the East River in Manhattan. If something big is happening somewhere on Earth, it was a trade on Wall Street that gave it life. From its humble beginnings as a mom and pop slave market…

When I tell people I’m a millionaire, their first reaction is to doubt me. I don’t blame them. I’m young, I’m hot, and I carry myself more like a foreign model than a businessman. And yet I drive around in one of my three 2020–2022 model sportscars, own property in…

In 1960, somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 people lived in the Chagos Islands. Today, none of them do. Instead, the islands play host to a premiere United States military base and not much else. The people, and their native culture, are gone. It was the construction of the U.S. base…

Hitler’s invasion of Poland started World War II, but Stalin’s changed the country forever. On September first, 1939, Hitler’s army crossed Germany’s eastern border and entered Poland, an invasive act of aggression that marks the official beginning of World War II. The invasion and subsequent occupation by German forces would…

It’s 1884 and we’re in Berlin. We’re all in Berlin, “we” being the major powers of Europe. Europe has a problem: it’s Africa. We all want it, and we’re trying to decide who gets it. We decide we all get some of it, as long as we’re there already, but…

Madagascar is an island 260 miles off the eastern coast of Africa. Geographically, the island is African, but its people aren’t, not originally. By that, I mean they didn’t get there, in a historical sense, by sailing from the African coast, even though that’s the nearest major landmass. …