Newest Series: Launching in August 2025
I should have done this series a long, long time ago. If you’re tired of feeling stuck in your day job, “Lunch Break Millionaire” teaches you step-by-step how to turn your dreams into a meaningful, resilient side business. No paywalls. Just some hard-earned (life-proven?) frameworks, some Ivy League-inspired AI prompts, and an old entrepeneur’s earnest effort to talk about the skills that matter most.
If you haven’t watched any of the posts, LBM is one month of short lunchtime exercises that will (hopefully) help you clarify your purpose, find your best idea, outsmart the competition, and learn the skills MBAs pay six figures for… and all of it, without quitting your job or burning out.
You’re welcome.
“Vintage” Content Catalog
The ORIGINAL JARGON-BUSTING BANKING SERIES
When I first joined a major bank 25 years ago, I was shocked by how little real onboarding there was. Most banks still do a terrible job teaching new hires how their business actually works. There’s so much you’re simply expected to figure out on your own.
This series is my way of fixing that. I’ll walk you through all the critical dimensions of modern banking, sharing what I wish someone sat me down and told me on day one.
If you’re prepping for interviews, you’ll walk in sounding like an insider. If you’re just starting out, you’ll immediately contribute more meaningfully. And for engineers, understanding your business is the difference between building what’s asked of you and creating real, impactful, game-changing solutions.
The truth is: the better you know banking, the more you’ll bring to the table—and the faster you’ll climbin your career.
The FOLLOW-UP TECH SERIES
If you thought banks sucked at onboarding junior employees, what ‘til you experience how they onboard senior leaders. I know because I lived it.
This series is my way of sharing everything I wish someone told me during my first 30 days as a CIO. From building authentic relationships, mastering governance and budgeting, to crafting strategic roadmaps and managing risk, it’s a jargon-free, real-world guide to making your mark early and setting the foundation for long-term success.
If nothing else, you’ll understand exactly how much you have to learn before you land in the c-suite. Hint: it’s not just tech. It’s also all the details about how the business works — see The Original Series (above).
STILL HAVE TIME? WTF!?!
Fiiiiine.
Here are all the blogs I wrote while I was pretending to be an executive.
It looked from the outside-in like I was trying to provide thought leadership (that no one was asking for). But I wrote most of them to help me process what I was doing.
Think of them as notes to myself.
It’ll hopefully change how you read them.
Again… you’re welcome.