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I enjoy talking about all aspects of writing, but especially short fiction.
I can't wait to give you some of the background on my stories and characters, and talk about my process.
Note: I cannot discuss finance or give financial advice.
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No Worries shows how anyone can live a stress-free financial life and build wealth for the long term.
This is not about millions of tiny decisions that drain the joy from life, like skipping daily coffee to save a few pounds. And it’s not simply about having more money.
The secret lies in adopting the right attitude to money and getting a small number of big things right.
In his unique style, drawing on decades of expertise, finance expert Jared Dillian gives us the essential facts about personal finance that will help you see things as you never have before.
"In a world that embraces conformity and convention, Jared Dillian is an independent thinker with a unique voice. He has truly worthwhile insights and understandings."
― Gregory Zuckerman, Author and Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal
What happens to us after we die? Why does pornography ruin everything? Why should you never wear cargo shorts? What are the keys to a successful marriage? Why do some people commit suicide, but others don’t?
This sparkling collection of essays sets out to answer these questions and more.
With empathy, curiosity, and candor, Jared Dillian dives headlong into the central questions of existence with eyes wide open, observing life in a way that only he can.
Alternately funny and sad, Those Bastards takes you on an emotional roller coaster, drawing heavily on Dillian’s experience with debilitating mental illness and his professional failures, and overflowing with sharp critiques on music and culture. He moves effortlessly from topic to topic, in one essay riffing on how to use Twitter with honesty and integrity, and in another, describing his experience at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Those Bastards is a literary sensation, filled with insights on what it means to be human, struggling in a world of uncertainty.
"Dillian shows remarkable breadth in this wonderful essay collection, exhibiting writing chops that extend far beyond the financial world he normally inhabits. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which is, at its core, about living a better life."
—John Mauldin, co-founder, Mauldin Economics
There are humans behind the big, bad vilified banks, there are humans behind the calculations of Wall Street, there are humans behind all the legal and illegal financial machinations in the news--they are not always the best humans, and they are not always the worst humans, but All The Evil Of This World tells their stories with abundant curiosity, empathy, and honesty.
On March 2nd, 2000, the technology company 3Com spun off its insanely profitable hand-held computer subsidiary, Palm. It was one of the most fascinatingly high profile and complex and bungled trades in history, but All The Evil Of This World isn't about the millions and millions of dollars that instantly came into play, it's about seven separate voices from seven separate individuals (an ambitious low-level clerk fresh out of school, a drug-addicted, party-throwing broker with bad taste and gross amounts of money, a seemingly infallible hedge fund manager tortured by his own good luck, to name a few) and the 3Com/Palm trade is what weaves their stories together. They all collide into it and out of it, and it sometimes unites them, implodes them, saves them, or destroys them.
"Jared Dillian pulls off a dizzying magic trick in ALL THE EVIL OF THIS WORLD, his fearless first novel. The story is as exhilarating and terrifying as the apocalyptic trade at its center, the characters swirling around it both gonzo and deeply human. Dillian is no wolf of Wall Street, he's its whirlwind."
—Bill Schweigart, author of THE BEAST OF BARCROFT and NORTHWOODS
