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…

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…

Your performance is uncommon because you put in an uncommon of work — It took a lot of good golf shots for me to realize that maybe I wasn’t just lucky. I am not good at golf. But I have played pretty consistently for over a year now. I have developed immensely in certain parts of my game. Sometimes, I will hit a…

Sometimes, paying is the only way to make yourself do something — I used to think it’d be easy to get in shape using everyday items and going for runs and bike rides. Boy was I wrong. Is it possible? Of course. But you’ve got to be a certain kind of person. I am not that kind of person. So, the other…

Your potential relies on you not falling for the trap — In contrast to the promotion of “hustle culture” online, content creators are now pushing another narrative: work/life balance. This anti-hustle culture advice pushes people to take a break from work in order to spend time in other areas of their life. This is good advice. Spending 100% of your waking…

His final, and most important, song — Four years ago, Mac Miller passed away. Four weeks before that, he released Swimming — the last album he’d see into the world. Four years prior to that, he began saying goodbye. Mac Miller’s life seemed to start going downhill in 2012 when he released Macadelic, a mixtape that marked…

You’re not a quitter — the book just sucks — I recently started reading Good to Great by Jim Collins, a highly-regarded book detailing how some of the late 20th-century’s greatest companies made the leap from being good enough to survive to dominating their competition. It didn’t take me long to give up on it. Boooring. It’s not Collins’ fault…

A question I need answered… — I have an idea of what the ideal version of myself looks like. I’m not anywhere near that person. “Maybe when I’m in my 30s,” I always tell myself. But why can’t it be sooner? To be honest, I have a major discipline problem. Not to make excuses, but it’s…