With values soaring to the moon, card collectors are starting to get violent — In December 2020, a rare Charizard Pokémon card sold for $360,000. Early in 2021, a Michael Jordan rookie card sold for $215,000. Weeks later, the same card sold for $738,000. During the pandemic last year, with people locked inside and looking for something to flip the mood, quarantiners turned to…

The harm a lack of regulation — and an excess of greed — can cause — The cryptocurrency markets cooled significantly after a year-plus run of insanity, when stimulus spiked liquidity and even your average moron made money. It wasn’t a big deal. This is what happens in crypto: a catalyst comes along and drives prices to insane highs for a few months only to settle…

Once a behemoth, the company is now in major trouble — Carvana was finally the cool kid on the block. With their car vending machines, towering alongside highways across the United States, customers could get a unique car ordering experience. In July 2021, Carvana (NYSE: CVNA) was trading around $340. A year and a half later, it’s at $8. What the…

Push off the things you can do later — If you asked me last year what my “Ideal Life” looked like, it would be a lot different than what I’m doing today. In fact, I was much closer to that life last year… I was working from home and writing for a living. I had an unbelievable amount of…

Taking a break sometimes makes it hard to get going again — It always feels nice to take a break while running. You get to catch your breath and give your legs a moment to chill out. It makes it easier to finish the run. Until you have to actually start running again. Running, or any sort of exercise, is not merely…

If years of inconsistency has taught me anything, it’s this — The hardest thing for a writer to do is… write. It’s so hard to find the ideas. It’s so hard to get motivated enough to sit down and start pecking away. I’ve been writing for over 10 years and have finally found the best ways to write more articles. Write ideas down as soon as you think of them As…

Or else give up on the adventure — It was an indescribably good feeling to hold the first book I published. For my entire life up to that point, the words I wrote almost felt imaginary. I know they were there. I know people read them. Some even liked them. But they were on a screen. I couldn’t…

No alcohol required! — People are finally making “self-care” a priority. This is great after decades of workers running themselves into the ground and not enjoying the fruits of their labor. Not everyone is choosing to take care of themselves in the right ways, however. Many treat themselves by shopping, over-consuming alcohol, and eating…

Because 25 lessons is too many — I published “23 Lessons I’ve Learned in 23 Years” on my 23rd birthday two years ago. Those lessons still stick with me today. But now, on my 25th birthday, I’ve learned a lot more. I don’t have 25 lessons for you. But I do have four big ones. Be Where Others Are I thought…