Here are some samples of things I have written. I retain copyright on everything and if you want to reprint my work just ask and you’re likely to receive.
I wrote more than 20 stories for Quartz and every one of them was without compensation of any kind. I gave them 30 day exclusive rights on a handshake with S. Mitra Kalita, who was their “Ideas” editor at the time. Now that I see they have put my stories behind a paywall I’m reproducing them here or on Medium.
- Don’t come to Wall Street for the money even if you plan on giving it away
- How to save Wall Street: Start with better parenting and more Canadians
- How to hire good people instead of nice people.
- To get a job, write your story instead of a resume.
- How to find a calling instead of a career
- The secret to a higher salary is to ask for nothing at all
- Brooke’s advice only works for men (rebuttal by Lauren Bacon)
- How women can use my approach with men (inspired by Lauren’s rebuttal)
- Ask yourself if your office needs more MBAs—or grownups.
- Why you should fear dishonor but not shame
- The self-evident and life-changing truth about working for free
- Hedge funds won’t restore your faith in humanity but couchsurfing might
- How to manage your inbox so you don’t miss a life-changing opportunity
- Three steps to getting what you want
- Want a job? Stop complaining and start solving someone else’s problems
- Want to be an entrepreneur? First ask yourself these five questions
- Can you be greedy without being selfish?
- The orphan saved by the power of games
- Will others benefit from your new year’s resolution — or will it only be you?
- Why business schools charge so much and pay their teachers so little
- What I want to say to the richest kids in the world
- If you manage your time terribly, you’ll get more done
- Why I forced my staff to attend Startup Weekend instead of watching the Super Bowl
- Finding Opportunities in a Dysfunctional Job Market
- Hiring in a Dysfunctional Job Market
- What Not to Do With Your Physics Education
- Keep Working (Even If You Don’t Get Paid)
I first began writing for an industry rag called Advanced Trading which was later changed to Wall Street & Technology. My home page at WS&T is here. Their links to my stories are broken because of the rename. My links below will take you to the internet archive.
- Ethics Needs to Come Out of Hiding
- Is it Fair to Expect Fairness
- What Need for Speed
- Take the Securities Industry Objective Quiz
- Are the Problems in the Securities Industry Caused by Bad Parenting?
- Stealing Other People’s Property
From 2003-05 I wrote for International Family Magazine, which is now defunct. You can find that work the Internet Archive here. Those stories were picked up by an Indian family magazine called Folk which is also defunct. These stories link to copies on my website.
- Everyone Knows Father Moran
- How to Complain to the Government
- When Pigs Fly
- Landing a job on the first interview
- The Right Woman
- How I Learned to Wiggle My Ears
- Shortness of Breath – Shortness of Time
- Tricky Economics
- Holiday Remembrances
- Sublimation
- Imagine a Future
- Environmentalist, Get Thee to an Editor
- College Thinking
- The Magical Power of Imagination
- Advice for Grandchildren
- Past Love & Science Takes a Look at Love
- Mr. Rieur
- Mourning a Best Friend
- Party Time
- Arisugawa Park
- Love is a Mother
- My Good Name
- What to Think About How to Think
- Great Grandfather – Great Grandmother – Great Depression
- Three Phase Theory of the Economy
- Money
- Why? Why Not?
- Sincerity
- Trade or Profession?
- Your Education is Your Most Valuable Asset, not Your Schooling
- Can You Afford It?
- TV Fatality
- Rejection
- Best Interest
- What am I?
Find all of Brooke’s articles at IFM here.
- The Problem with Talking about Intellectual Virtues
- Is Cheating by Colleges Just Another Clever Marketing Ploy?
- You do not need permission to do the right thing. No one can give you permission to do the wrong thing.
- Should Caring Be Part of Every Job description?
- Game Design as Life Design
- How America Can Level-Up Skills and Land Good Jobs
- How to Gain Experience by Working for Free – And Stay Within the Law
Here you will find one of the rare photos of me at my trading desk back from my Rat Race years.
I am an amateur radio operator with avid interest in contesting and DXing. I’ve been licensed since 1966 (age 14). I am N2BA in the USA and I’ve been licensed and operated from over 35 countries. Here is a series of articles I wrote for the premier magazine for contesters.
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