Recently I wrote an article on the 15 things I didn't learn in school. It ended up being one of my most well-received articles yet. Here's the TL:DR of my 3 favorite items on the list. 1. The true power of knowledge“Don’t let school get in the way of...
I almost failed out of high school. Fortunately, I came across a program called Independent Study. It is like it sounds. By the end of my little experiment, I realized I could educate myself a lot faster than a classroom could.Now, being a lot more m...
You’ve probably seen that headline before. So many writers have used that line to rope in readers, then give you advice that was fresh at one point but is now generic.“The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself. In your own educati...
Earlier this year, my partner Jon and I, started a new business. It was inspired by our marketing agency. Instead of doing marketing for individual companies, we would do marketing for a specific niche, using a brand we created ourselves, then sell t...
If you’re a fan of personal development (read: making your life better than it was yesterday), then you’ve probably already seen the core question of this activity.“What should I be doing with my time?”Almost all personal development or self-help adv...
Welcome to the first edition of The Weekly Dropout.To you, it may feel like just another email newsletter, but to us, it feels like history in the making.For too long, society's pillar life advice for the upcoming generation has been "go to universit...