I talk about digital writing & personal progress

Here's a quick rundown of how I've spent my last 5 years:

1. Studied math and played football at Princeton. I graduated in 2018 with a degree in financial engineering and played center for the Tigers. In college, I was a 280-pound offensive lineman, so for the last 5 years, I've had to completely rewrite my personal operating system on the health & fitness front. I currently weigh 185 pounds and have learned a lot along the way!

2. Graduated and immediately started working for BlackRock in New York City. I worked as a junior hedge fund trader for 4 years, focusing on global macro markets. This was my dream job and the only corporate job I've ever had. In fact, it's the only job *interview* I've ever had (since I interned there as a junior in college).

3. Realized working for someone else was not going to be the long-term path for me. 12 months into working on Wall Street, I saw someone in their mid-40s ask their boss for permission to go to their son's Little League game. At that moment I realized I wasn't cut out to take directions or instructions from other people for very long.

4. Started to write on my old blog, then on Twitter. Rather than quit immediately, I started to passively explore other opportunities by writing online, starting out on my old blog (which no one knew existed), then transitioning to Twitter in July of 2020.

5. Changed my trajectory with a 30-day writing challenge, which led me to start Ship 30 for 30. In September 2020 I was ready to give up writing entirely. But I gave it one more shot, this time moving from a weekly blog post to a daily Twitter thread. The challenge was a huge success. It took me 9 months to reach 100 followers and 1 month to go from 100 to 2,000. And that personal writing challenge turned into the foundation of Ship 30 for 30, which started as nothing but a Slack accountability group to help people publish consistently.

6. Scaled Ship 30 while working remotely for all of 2021. I built and scaled Ship 30 with Nicolas Cole to over 2,000 students in 2021—all while continuing to work full-time (remotely) for BlackRock. But towards the end of 2021, Ship 30 hit an inflection point and it no longer made financial sense for me to continue working on Wall Street.

7. Left BlackRock in March of 2022 to write and build on my own. After weeks of weighing the pros and cons and trying to project my path forward, I made the decision to leave BlackRock and chart my own path. 15 months into making that decision and I'm confident it's the best one I've ever made.

Dickie Bush 🚢

I used to have one severe addiction:

Planning.

My brain loved the cheap dopamine of gathering:

• Books to read
• Tasks to complete
• And videos to watch

But when it came to taking action, the euphoric rush faded.

What ended my addiction?

This story of two men learning to fish:

The first fisherman heads straight to the marina to buy the best fishing boat money can buy.

He specs out a custom, carbon fiber rod.

And he spends time reading up on everything there is to know about fishing:

• Casting techniques
• Baiting techniques
• Reeling techniques

You name it, he's bought the book on it.

And of course, he's watching the fishing channel every night for hours, learning from the best of the best.

A few months later, he finally feels ready to fish.

The next day, he heads out on the lake in his new boat with his fancy rod and wealth of fishing "experience" built up over the last few months.

But six hours in, nothing. Not even a nibble.

What happened?

Turns out, the second fisherman had already sucked the lake dry.

On day one, the second fisherman grabbed a shitty rod, sliced up a hot dog, and went out to the lake.

• The first day, nothing
• Second day, nothing
• Third day, nothing
• One week, nothing

But on the eighth day? His first nibble.

And every day after, he honed his technique.

He found a baiting technique that worked a bit better. Or a new spot with a few more fish.

And after three weeks of iteration, he found the winning combination.

Before long, he was hauling in hundreds of fish every day. To keep up with his daily haul, he hired a small team to help him. And from there, he opened a restaurant with fat margins to sell his fresh fish.

And after that, he opened a fishing school to teach others his craft.

He did all of this while the first fisherman sat around gathering gear.

Sure, the first fisherman felt productive. He was "learning" after all, right?

But there was one difference: feedback.

Every day the second fisherman had an idea of something that might work better. And he went right to the market to validate his assumption. If it worked, his strategy improved. And if it failed, he learned something new.

The moral of this story?

Get to action as quickly as possible.

When you find yourself gathering gear, grab a shitty rod and start fishing.

Bad way to learn copywriting:

1. Bookmark dozens of posts
2. Read all the books
3. Apply none of them

Instead, just read The Adweek Copywriting Handbook by Joseph Sugarman.

It taught me more about copywriting than dozens of books combined.

And you can steal Sugarman's 7-step process to write high-converting copy (that helped me generate $15,000,000):

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📌 Copywriting helped me build a 7-figure writing business.

(While working 12-hour days at my Wall Street job)

But I made my first $10,000 on the internet as a ghostwriter.

And right now, becoming a LinkedIn Ghostwriter is the easiest way to land high-paying clients.

Want to know how to land LinkedIn writing clients in 2025?

Here's a free, 5-day email course on how to get started: https://lnkd.in/eCFfC5cX

7 Steps To Write High-Converting Copy (From Joe Sugarman)

At 24, a stranger on the internet paid me $5,000.

The crazy part?

I thought they'd sent it by mistake!

But I'd actually just stumbled across an insanely lucrative business anyone can start:

Ghostwriting.

Everyone should have writing clients who pay $5,000+ for a project.

(This is ultimately how I quit my job on Wall Street so I could travel and work from anywhere in the world.)

But most people are stuck figuring out:

• What service to sell
• Which clients to target
• How to charge premium rates

So, last month, Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 and I put together the Writer Positioning Playbook to help you:

• Escape the freelancer rat race
• Confidently charge high-ticket prices
• Land ideal clients who value your expertise

Inside, you'll find:

• The 1 simple shift to 10x your rates overnight
• A 3-step framework to upgrade your Positioning
• An AI prompt to find 5 high-paying clients for YOUR specific background

Plus, you'll see real examples from a $3M ghostwriting agency.

Want access?

Comment "playbook" and I'll send it across (for free).

And if we're not connected, send me a connection request with the word "playbook" and I'll DM it to you.

How To Land $5,000 Writing Clients

This French teacher had one goal in mind:

To 4x her income.

Why?

Because Laura B. wanted to fund the work she's most passionate about—teaching her students how to become fluent in French.

So she took the plunge and joined our Premium Ghostwriting Academy.

And as a ghostwriter, she scaled quickly.

She sold:

• 5 Email Courses
• 8 Consulting Packages
• Dozens of Thought Leadership Packs

And now she's using this extra income to build her tutoring business.

Laura's example goes to show that anyone can become a ghostwriter and use this in-demand (and lucrative) service to either:

1. Create a new income stream
2. Or scale their existing income

Because executives, founders, and creators around the world are realizing how much they need a personal brand to scale their businesses.

And the salaries I've seen them pay are wild:

• Content Strategist at OpenAI ($319K - $393K/yr)

• Thought Leadership & Narrative Manager at Google ($211K - $297K/yr)

• Head of CEO Content at PayPal ($137.5K - $236K/yr)

And the best place to start right now is LinkedIn.

Want to start making money as a LinkedIn Ghostwriter?

I put together a free, 5-day email course to help you land high-paying writing clients.

Click "Visit my website" at the top of this post to get instant access.

Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing

Project Officer

• Explore youth inactivity and provide a pathway to influence increased youth movement, play and performance.
• Support community clubs to explore innovative ways to deliver quality experiences, share resources, services and facilities, increase affordability and promote contemporary approaches to volunteering through the Club of the Future (COTF) initiative.
• Regulate professional or public boxing and martial arts events by the Boxing and Martial Arts Act 2000 (the Act) which is specific to South Australia. The Act promotes the safety of contestants and places obligations on promoters, medical practitioners, contestants and trainers for this purpose, including the requirement for a medical clearance for contestants submitted through the iApply portal.
• Enhance the stakeholder experience for ORSR and create better accountability and delivery of projects by administering a Salesforce driven CRM and project management tools such as Jira and Confluence. 
• Enabling recreation, sport and racing organisations to thrive by organizing and facilitating information and networking workshops for the broader South Australian sporting community.
• Store, maintain and manage records related to policy initiatives using the Department’s records management system and in accordance with relevant policies. Provide administrative assistance to support the provision of policy advice.
• Actively participate in ORSR's Career Development Team by discussing, reviewing, planning workshops, and creating survey questions and reports for the organisation to help with professional career development.
• Draft a range of correspondence, policies and briefings, and contribute to the preparation of advice and provision of support to the Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing, Chief Executive, Executive Leadership Team and other relevant stakeholders.
• Support other teams within the ORSR to ensure grants and resources effectively support ORSR strategic initiatives.

Project Support Officer

Mindgrants

Educating migrants and students on the power of reading and LinkedIn writing.

Helping graduates and migrants with their job search by collaborating and writing LinkedIn posts.

Founder

Just Play

•	Inspiring healthier communities by connecting people to friendly and accessible sporting experiences.
•	Leveraging technology to make the process of playing sport simple, efficient, and fun.
•	Reporting to and working with the Head of Operations to deliver the Just Play product on the web and mobile application.
•	Growing revenue and partnerships; and making Just Play a profitable and sustainable business by delivering great experiences to our customers that earns their continued support. 
•	Ensuring players have all the information they need from partner venues by contacting our venue partners as required.
•	Messaging and tagging players on Intercom to inform them about their first game of the season.
•	Allocating players into teams and delaying leagues on the admin dashboard as directed by the Operations Manager.
•	Processing game reports which include no-show follow up, late RSVP’s, tagging players for removal and flagging teams that require extra attention.
•	Following up any failed renewal subscription payments so players can register and not miss out on the following season.
•	Providing refunds to players using a combination of web-based applications like Braintree and Intercom.
•	Documenting all processes relating to uniforms including deciding on critical stock levels, ordering stock, and doing stocktake using Shopify.
•	Collaborating with other teams and team members (customer support, marketing, finance, and management) using Asana and Intercom to contribute to the overarching organisational goals.
•	Generating new leads data as instructed by the customer support and marketing team.
•	Implementing new operational and management processes to put Just Play in a position to have a successful 6-month post COVID resumption.

Operations Assistant

Mount Scopus Memorial College

•	Create and implement sport programs (soccer and volleyball).
•	Report directly to the Head of Sport and Heads of relevant sporting codes to maintain the delivery of an exceptional program.
•	Conduct squad selection and finalising number of teams to be entered for competition at proper levels.
•	Organise a squad training schedule in consultation with the Head of Sport.
•	Coach in both indoor and outdoor environments.
•	Accompany students to sporting venues and deliver and demonstrate skills in training sessions.
•	Compile and consolidate suitable reports at the conclusion of matches.

Head Soccer Coach

Assistant Manager - Clube (Senior Football) 

•	Oversee player performance during training and match-days.
•	Lead the training sessions after collaboratively planning the session with the Manager.
•	Serve as an active assistant coach, coaching culturally and geographically diverse groups of players.
•	Drive a program to engage disengaged youth and educate the importance of living healthy by playing soccer.
•	Participate in the Selection Committee to choose match squads each week.
•	Act as a Manager when the Manager is unavailable at training or the seniors match.

Assistant Team Manager

Cricket Victoria

Umpire

SportsGrad

Member

Spotless Group

Government and Citizen Services at Vic Schools

An opportunity to give back to the community by being a sanitation worker in Melbourne during the pandemic, and working to keep people and children safe, especially during the lockdown.

Sanitation Worker - Roberts McCubbin Primary School

Event Workforce Group

•	Assisted the events team with a high number of events, ranging from small meetings to award ceremonies
•	Promoted events across Melbourne
•	Supported the events manager with logistical and administrative support
•	Helped set up and dismantle events efficiently through to completion
•	Ad-hoc duties at events including, but not limited to, guest list management, showing guests to tables and taking coats
•	Maintained communication with event vendors through the lifecycle of each event
•	Created and implemented on-site attendee experience strategy

Casual Activation, Operations, Merchandising, Ticketing and Promotions Staff

•	Provided excellent customer service to ensure patrons were having a flawless experience
•	Door management at Show Courts, Melbourne Arena, Rod Laver Arena, and Margaret Court Arena
•	Crowd and queue management
•	Ushered patrons in and out the areas safely
•	Monitored venue capacity
•	Liaised with key stakeholders - Tennis Australia and Melbourne Olympic Park staff

Patron Services - Australian Open

Kelly Sports

Sports Referee

Educating migrants and students on the power of reading and LinkedIn writing | On a journey of reading 100 books (99/100) 📚📖 and learning from the journeys of 500 migrants (49/500) 🤝

I’m on a journey to read 150 books and learn from the experiences of 500 people. I use the insights I’ve gained—combined with my own journey in Australia—to share my thoughts on LinkedIn.

My purpose is to add value to people’s lives by paying it forward through writing. My mission is to reshape how migrants perceive their journey using the power of storytelling.

My Story:

I grew up in Mumbai, India, where cricket thrives, but other sports struggle. I dreamed of becoming an athlete but lacked the courage and relentless discipline to pursue it. Instead, I took the safer path—doing well in academics, earning a bachelor's in Computer Engineering, and securing an IT job.

In 2017, I left my promising IT career to follow my passion for sports. I pursued a Master’s in Sports Management at Deakin University to develop the skills needed for a meaningful career in sports. I made this leap because I felt stuck and couldn’t see myself in IT any longer.

Deep down, I always knew I wanted to work in sports. After much reflection, I finally found the courage to leave my comfort zone, embrace resilience and patience, and work toward making an impact in the field.

Since then, I’ve gained experience in both IT and sports. I worked as an IT consultant with Techsa Services in India and am currently a Project Officer at the Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing in Adelaide.

I bring 5+ years of experience in computer networks and IT administration and 4 years in sports administration, coaching, and development. As a sports management professional, I’m passionate about inspiring people to lead active lives and motivating elite athletes to unlock their full potential.

Beyond work, I love playing soccer and cricket—whether in a competitive club match or a casual game with friends. I also enjoy coaching, reading books, and watching action anime. I’m passionate about helping people build reading habits and express themselves effectively.

🙌 I’m always intrigued by people’s journeys. So, if you ever receive a message from me, know that I’m genuinely interested in learning about your story!

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