Five life lessons the game taught me — I have been playing chess for as long as I can remember. When I was younger, my father signed me up for chess lessons in Queens, NY, where I was taught by Grandmaster Susan Polgar. …

This highly effective habit is how the 1% effectively manage their time. — You rarely meet a successful person who doesn’t value their time. Take Elon Musk, for example. Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admit that he is highly successful. But how does one achieve this level of fame and success? It’s definitely not by sitting around on…

How to fight distractions in the age of technology. — The average person spends almost 7 hours a day staring at a screen. And when you work in tech like I do, this number gets much higher. Many of us know all too well how addicting our smartphones can be. These devices are capable of accessing the entirety of the…

The art of second-order thinking. — One of the most critical skills a chess player can have is the ability to think ahead. People who don’t know any better will often make decisions without considering the consequences. They act before they think, which leads to mistakes further down the line. A good chess player thinks five…

Examples and explanations of practical use cases — Python’s built-in datetime library is one of the most common modules to manipulate date and time object data. You can create date and datetime objects, loop through a range of dates, parse and format date strings, and more. …

How you can drastically improve your returns in life — Sometimes, life gets tough. Maybe you’re fighting for that promotion at work or maybe stuck trying to learn a new programming language. The hard truth is that whatever you’re trying to achieve, it can’t be done overnight. Rome wasn’t built in a day. I’m not trying to uninspire you. I…

The psychology of grabbing attention and drastically improving your viewership — If you’re reading this, my title worked. The human mind craves attention. By simply starting this article with a question in the title, I’m already engaging you — the reader — directly. …

How you can generate additional income with minimal risk. — You heard correctly — this strategy has a 95% success rate. Trust me, it works. If you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe Warren Buffett. He implements a very similar strategy. If you are unfamiliar with the stock market or options trading, I highly suggest you take a look at…

An introduction to investing in your future. — The stock market can be an intimidating place. Most people hear “Wall Street” and think of the chaos of a hundred simultaneous phone calls, the trading floor frenzy during market hours, and billionaires doing billionaire things. The economy frontrunner in the news recently — with historic inflation rates, interest rate…