3 Tips To Overcome Online Writer’s Block
Mariko Gordon, CFA Mariko Gordon, CFA

3 Tips To Overcome Online Writer’s Block

Lurker, Know-it-all, and Imposter. 

They’re all murderers. They kill all desire to write. No one wants to hear crickets, no one wants to be the know-it-all, and everyone feels like an imposter. I get it. 

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Will You Leave A Mess When You Die?
Mariko Gordon, CFA Mariko Gordon, CFA

Will You Leave A Mess When You Die?

I had a friend who dropped dead on his way to work.

He was walking to his office in midtown from Penn Station when he had a heart attack and collapsed on the sidewalk. He was a securities lawyer in his 40s, a great guy, and a pillar in the Japanese American community. He’d gotten married late in life and was a new father. His daughter was still a baby when he died.

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