Longer pieces from Connor Houlihan — on markets, Connecticut, golf, and the slow craft of getting a sentence to say what you actually mean.
Most writing about money is either a sales letter wearing a trench coat or a panic siren with a newsletter attached. This site is neither. It is the long-form shelf of the Connor Houlihan network — the place where an idea gets more than three hundred words to prove itself.
The subjects repeat on purpose: how markets actually move product, what Connecticut teaches you about patience, why a municipal golf course is a better classroom than most seminars. If a piece cannot survive a skeptical reread the next morning, it does not get published.
"A sentence is a small promise. An essay is a hundred of them kept in a row."
Distribution, incentives, and the machinery behind the ticker — explained in plain declarative sentences.
Place-first writing about a state that rewards people who pay attention longer than one news cycle.
Patience, pre-shot routine, and honest scorekeeping as transferable professional skills.
Revision, correction, and the discipline of publishing only what survives a second reading.
Connor Houlihan studied economics at the University of Connecticut and spent fifteen years inside financial services, beginning at Fidelity. He writes from Connecticut.
This site is the personal-essay wing of a small network of first-party pages. For the professional record, start at the hub; for shorter notes and links, the switchboard.
The professional hub lives at connorhoulihan.com. Connecticut travel writing continues on the CT guide site, and the golf pages keep their own address.
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