Hey, I’m Will.
27 Seconds About Me:
I’m the Course Director for Write of Passage (and formerly Building a Second Brain)
Through my job I explore 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:
Best essays:
Podcast appearances:
Building Cohort-Based Courses (with Tiago Forte and David Perell)
1990 vs. 2020 Mindsets (Curious Lion podcast with Andrew Barry)
Chiwi Journal (Learning Chinese, Future of Education, Reading, and Writing)
The Danny Miranda Podcast (Solitude, Airplanes, and Nuance)
The North Star Podcast with David Perell (Running an Online Course)
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)