Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Clay Collins is a self-development writer who blogs about alternative productivity and "anti-hacks" for living. Clay takes great pleasure in writing productivity articles that advocate counterintuitive approaches that challenge conventional wisdom. He's written about why you shouldn't be an earlier riser; why large computer monitors deter productivity; and why productivity hacks, tweaks, tips, tricks, etc. are largely insufficient at solving bigger life problems, and often don't increase productivity.

Clay dropped down the entrepreneurial rabbit hole early in life when he ditched high school at the age of 15 to co-found a California software company. Since then he's gone to college and graduate school, vagabonded, worked as a researcher, freelance writer, software programmer, and professional blogger. The most important things about Clay, however, aren't on his resume.

Clay's lived in both Ghana and Guatemala, and will be relocating to Croatia (the Dalmatian coast) in June. Some of his favorite things are Quetzals, Community with a capital "C," food prepared in a campfire (or a Dutch oven), the outdoors, backpacking, and human rights. Like a mutual fund, he seems to grow up more than down over a five-year period, but the key is to hold on, not sell. Clay wants to cook more, rolls his eyes at self-help books but reads them anyway, and wants to learn the banjo. He doesn't own a T.V.