I hope you had a great couple of weeks! Last week, I was in Sarasota with Roman, four of his friends, and their fathers for a father-son spring break. It was a great time, despite not spending as much time as I would have liked writing. Going down, I anticipated taking the boys to Siesta Key, dropping them off at the beach, and posting up at a coffee shop and doing a lot of writing and creating. That plan changed when we rented e-bikes for the boys, but that was ok. I got to spend some...

This morning while getting ready to check out of our hotel and head to Leo’s second match in Chicago, I had Moneyball on the TV. I’ve never watched the movie, despite liking the majority of Michael Lewis’s books. The final scene I saw was the one in which Billy Beane watches his analytics-focused approach to rebuilding the Oakland Athletics fail at the beginning of the season. The team was on a losing streak, and the media and fans questioned why the team was struggling and called for Beane...

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” -Epictetus Everything is neutral until you assign a value to it. So that “bad” even that happened to you was only “bad” because that was the value you assigned to it. Remember this the next time you begin to assign a negative value to something that has happened to you. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC