If you want the full BTS you should watch this video I made recapping my year: https://youtu.be/j7fgrippwc0 First here are 10 lessons I learned/re-learned this year: Lesson #1: Life is About the Little Moments Lesson #2: The World is Bigger, Yet Smaller Than You Think Lesson #3: Things Take Longer Than You Think Lesson #4: […]
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The Forever Game >>>> The Instant Game
We live in a world of games. Our fitness is gamified through apps like Cadoo, where you can bet on yourself working out or not with real money. A gambling economy with yourself and randos on the internet. Work out tomorrow, get paid $20 from all the folks who bet that they would work out […]
A Landing Place for Luck
Sometimes the greatest things come from serendipity. I was walking on Santa Monica Pier when I saw Airrack filming a YouTube video. We knew each other because I had kayaked to ask for an internship on an island he was throwing a 1 million subscriber celebration on in Florida. But when I saw him all […]
Why I wrote my first non-fiction book about the future of fiction…
I never thought I’d say this, but I just finished my first non-fiction book, Creator Economy for Authors: A Guide to the Future of Publishing. Storytelling has always been the center of my life. I wrote my first science fiction novel at 13 and published 12 novels by the time I started my freshman year […]
The Little Moments
The feeling of a warm cup of coffee in your hands as you breathe in the brisk morning air. The sensation of the sun rays pulling out the loose beads of sweat as endorphins rush through you. The satisfaction of staring at someone you love, your brain smiling as their lips part to laugh. Sometimes […]
What Could Have Been
What if the heroin epidemic never happened? How many lives would be saved? How many families would still be whole? As a speculative fiction author, I often find myself asking “what if” questions. Most of the time these are related to possible futures, emerging technologies, and problems I speculate our society will have to confront […]
The Art of Surrender
What do you want in your life this year? I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately, especially as the year seems to get off to a start reminiscent of a bad political thriller. For the past few weeks, I’ve been enjoying time off from college. Mostly writing, reflecting, and spending lots of time […]
The Year I Stopped Writing To Make My Life a Movie Instead
Author’s Note: This was written way back in August of 2021 right before my second semester of college. It’s surreal to be writing this, but I’m back. Last fall, a year ago today, I stepped foot onto Harvard’s campus as a Freshman in the class of 2024. I prepared to finish writing the World Gone […]
The Character of The Year
*Read to the end for a pic of me with a very large pizza :).The Times just announced Elon Musk as the 2021 Person of the Year. Elon Musk is a polarizing figure. The kind of person that the media crafts their own story around, in some eyes the icon and hero, and in other eyes the […]
An Author’s Review of MrBeast’s Squid Game
In just 24 hours MrBeast’s Squid Game generated 42 million views and in four days had over 100 million views becoming one of the most successful videos ever uploaded to the YouTube platform. I’m an author of a dozen science fiction thriller novels and I love analyzing the stories that shape culture and become the […]
The Danger of Being A Writer
Did I just say writing is dangerous? You mean sitting at your desk all day and typing on a computer?! Geez, must be hard. The act of writing may not be dangerous (although for all you writers out there, lower back pains, wrist cramps, and forgetting to eat are all things I’ve experienced). But what […]
My Life In Story
Life is something we are all always figuring out. For me, I thought I had my answer: I lived to create stories. Specifically, stories about the future. Stories that asked questions about what life would be like 20-30 years down the road. What forces are shaping the world of tomorrow? Who has the power to create […]
How a mental hospital inspired me to write dystopian books
Lately, I have been wondering about the experiences that have formed the foundation of who I am today. One string of memories in particular has pushed me towards storytelling, specifically post-apocalyptic fiction novels more than any other.
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10 Lessons I Learned from Bootstrapping a Publishing Company at 18 years Old
Entrepreneurship has always been at the core of my being. And I’m a creative too, a storyteller specifically. For years I found myself too scared to dive into any of these pursuits until a knee injury sidelined my middle school sports career and gave me extra free time in the evenings. I used this free time to build the foundations of a storytelling empire.
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