[If you are interested, here is 40. 39. 38. 37. 36. And 35.]

1. I am likely making more progress than I think I am.

2. I think that literature and math should be the foundation of education.

3. Lebanese immigrants are often fantastic at business.

4. That I love this poem.

5. Quid sit homo means “what is man.”

6. Education is nearly impossible to force.

7. We are all exposed to more propaganda than we can imagine.

8. Frequesnt flier programs are worth more than the airlines themselves.

9. Keying dollar cotton is difficult because of that extra digit.

10. What getting COVID feels like.

11. McDonalds is a real estate company.

12. That I am constantly in peaceful rebellion in my very disposition.

13. Being great (for most) is a horizontal goal – not a vertical one.

14. How to type emojis from my laptop.

15. People remember stories, not lists. (See #12. Haha! The irony.)

16. I miss airports more than I thought I did.

17. This is why putting your neck out at work is hard too.

18. To notice trees.

19. That flying private is the last luxury.

20. How to quit a job.

[If you are interested, here is 39. 38. 37. 36. And 35.]

1. Fear can be a funny thing. But we should not let it control us.

2. I have more respect for old things. Things that have endured.

3. The three most addictive things in the world.

4. Comedian Steve Harvey made it like everyone else did. He refused to give up.

5. The year 2020 would look like this.

6. The American Robin is one of the earliest birds to sing in the morning.

7. An octopus can dream.

8. One word parenting can work.

9. A “Sunday House” was a home in town for farmers and ranchers.

10. My impulse to write things down has only grown with time.

11. A better definition of assets and liabilities. (I know the actual definition. This is just a way of rethinking it.)

12. Christianity raises the problem of pain more than it “solves” it.

13. Copywriting is different than writing.

14. The art of subtlety repeating myself.

15. If you want a happy family, be easy-going about Saturday lunch.

16. People study and use persuasion in a context in which you can not imagine.

17. I love the poetry of W.H. Auden.

18. Larry McMurtry titled his famous novel Lonesome Dove after this.

19. Writing publicly may be the simplest way to more opportunities. (Simple – not easy.)

20. The older you are, the more you tend to talk about it.