I collaborate with experts to help them share their ideas with the world.Past collaborations: * STREETS OF GOLD, by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Platt Boustan (forthcoming from Public Affairs, 2022)--performed developmental and line edits to take these economic historians' full manuscript to the next level* DIE WITH ZERO: Getting All You Can From Your Money and Your Life, by Bill Perkins (Houghton Mifflin, July 2020)—ghostwrote the book from start to finish, including the proposal that sold the book* TRILLION DOLLAR COACH: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell, by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle (HarperBusiness, April 2019)—worked as the researcher Testimonials:"Marina Krakovsky, our research partner, always goes about two steps farther than we expect. She is as insightful and thoughtful as she is diligent and thorough." (From the Acknowledgements of HOW GOOGLE WORKS)"Marina Krakovsky ... is always creative and insightful, and a heck of an editor to boot. It was a great pleasure to work with you again, Marina!" (From the Acknowledgements of TRILLION DOLLAR COACH)"Smart, honest, clear, insightful, fast. Really great." (Review by Dmitri Mehlhorn, who'd hired me to write a critique of a book idea)"[I needed] to work with a writer who could take my words, stories, and explanations and shape them into a flowing, easy-to-read text while retaining my voice, style, and passion. That writer was Marina Krakovsky. I was really lucky to have a writer who was familiar with the relevant ideas from economics and who had the ability to support these ideas with relevant academic research... I want to thank Marina not only for all this, but also for pushing me through the long, unfamiliar, and sometimes painful process of turning a complex series of ideas into a book anyone can understand." (From author Bill Perkins's Acknowledgements in DIE WITH ZERO)

Writing articles for publications that include:Communications of the ACMDiscoverFastCompany.comHR MagazineMarker (by Medium)New York Times MagazineO, The Oprah MagazinePsychology TodaySAPIENSScientific AmericanScientific American MindStanford magazineSlateWashington PostWired

http://www.themiddlemaneconomy.com

I spoke about finding your power in the middle (what it means to be an effective networker), about the platform economy (Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and other tech-powered middleman businesses), and about the responsibilities of middlemen in the age of the Internet (including real estate agents, event planners, financial advisors, and others in a position to make others better off by brokering connections).

"Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business," by Kay-Yut Chen and Marina Krakovsky (Portfolio/Penguin, 2010). For more information, see http://www.secretsofthemoneylab.com

Wrote software manuals for companies that create either educational or database products. Clients included Oracle, Apple, Netscape, Siebel, Mergent (acquired by Commerce One), The Learning Company, and Computer Curriculum Corporation

Developed and taught introductory classes in technical writing to adult students.

Wrote manuals and other instructional materials for Apple's and third-party software, mainly for the K-12 education market.

Wrote manuals for installing, administering, and using Oracle products on DEC's platforms. During this time, I also wrote "Understanding the Oracle Server" (Prentice Hall, 1996).