Hey, I’m Will.

27 Seconds About Me:

• I co-founded Write of Passage and built it for 4.5 years

• Previously I served as Course Director Building a Second Brain

• Through my job I explored the wild west of online education

• In my free time I explore language, literature, history, and philosophy

• I review books and ideas on YouTube. This is my favorite so far.

• I love quotes. Here’s my favorite 236 of all-time

• I lived in China for 6 months and I speak Mandarin comfortably. One day I’ll be fluent (working on it). Email me if you speak Chinese and want to 聊天儿 on my podcast

• Here’s my Chinese YouTube channel and podcast

Best short posts:

• Head Self, Heart Self

• Beauty and the Brief

• Just Stand Up (The Gulliver Rule)

Best essays:

• 10 Days of Pure Solitude

• And the Pesky Fades Away

• Are You Arkansas or Alabama?

• Your Infinity Machine

Podcast appearances:

• Building Cohort-Based Courses (with Tiago Forte and David Perell)

• The Danny Miranda Podcast (Solitude, Airplanes, and Nuance)

• The North Star Podcast with David Perell (Running an Online Course)

• Chiwi Journal (Learning Chinese, Future of Education, Reading, and Writing)

• 1990 vs. 2020 Mindsets (Curious Lion podcast with Andrew Barry)

• Caffeine Conversations with David Sherry (Surfing the Internet for Education and Ideas)

• Reshaping Education with Ish Baid (Building and Scaling Live Online Courses)

• Perpetual Learning with Suthen Siva (Running an Online Course)