I turned 32 last week.
Every year, I love looking back and realizing how much I didn’t know the year before. To that end, here are 12 things I got wrong (or have been getting wrong for a while) and how I changed my mind.
In 2009, my mother and I were watching some procedural alphabet soup show, CSI or NCIS or one of those lot. A Korean spy wanted to blow up the Pentagon made of duct tape and Kleenex.
“This is awful. I could write something better than this.”
My mother looked at me. “If you think you can do it better, do it better.”
Here’s how to get a driver’s license in California. Follow these steps and save HOURS of your time at the DMV.
The 7 Steps to Get a Driver’s License in California
- Find and establish a California residency
- Make an appointment at your DMV
- Complete Form DL-44 at the DMV
- Prove your identity
- Pay the driver’s license fee, $33
- Take the written test
- Take an eye test
Let’s dig into each step.
I asked a group of 3,000 smart, ambitious millennials: “What are the best email newsletters right now — the ones you open every time?” Here’s what they’re reading:
- Need 2 Know
- The Hustle
- The Skimm
- Reforge’s Thoughts on Growth
- Daily Carnage
- Farnam Street’s Brain Food
- Girls Night In
- Market Snacks
- Skift Table
- Exponential View
Cable television, we had a good run.
The “Third Golden Age of Television” — the influx of creator-driven dramas on cable and premium channels — was spectacular. Men (it was mostly men) changed the television landscape with shows like The Wire, The Shield, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Game Of Thrones. These were some of the best TV series to watch.
I think my friend Bevin introduced the idea of sympathy vs. feedback idea to me:
When someone complains to her about something, first she lets them get it all out
Then she asks (I’m paraphrasing), “Okay. What are you looking: sympathy or feedback?”
A few months ago, a colleague sent this message:
“I was just painfully reminded by my friend had I held my initial $1K investment in ETH, today would be the day it was worth $1M.”
I worked on my first online business — a site called FightingBroke.com — for 4 years. In its first iteration, it was a personal finance site for young people working in Hollywood.
A few months ago, I watched the film Arrival. I sat in awe for 116 minutes, and as the closing credits rolled, my first thought was:
“This movie shouldn’t have been made.”
This article is about social media addiction.
We will get there…
But to find our way, we have to first talk about Joanna Jędrzejczyk (pronounced Yon-Jay-Check).
Joanna Jędrzejczyk is one of the most decorated women MMA fighters in the history of the sport. Before she dominated the women’s strawweight division, she won over 60 Thai boxing matches. She’s landed the most significant strikes in UFC championship history (225), plus the highest significant strike differential in UFC championship history (142).