[Here is 2018, 2019, 2020. And 2021]

1. Saturday naps.
2. Pondering airports.
3. Airport walks.
4. Ginger Ale at 20,000 feet.
5. Remembering my first job.
6. Sitting in front of the fire more than last year.
7. Despising what we have done to modern education.
8. Father’s Day at the pool.
9. Drinks and lunch by the pool.
10. Spending more time in airports.
11. Watching TV in the shower.
12. The suite life.
13. Practicing eternity.
14. Finding out there were WMD’s in Iraq. What?! 🤯
15. Hanging out in Bakersfield.
16. The Padre Hotel.
17. This sign – reminding me of my grandfather.
18. New banks in town.
19. Approaching more things like they are a game.
20. Wishing more people knew how to communicate.
21. Turning 41.
22. Buying ridiculously expensive sunglasses.
23. Buying this awesome keyboard.
24. This video on surviving the Titanic.
25. Planning a trip back to Lake Tahoe.
26. Discovering eccentric videos, like this.
27. Being the only one in my office at work.
28. Discovering George Ezra.
29. This song by George Ezra too.
30. And this one.
31. Watching this documentary on Carl Icahn.
32. Not looking at my phone on the weekend.
33. Idle time at gymnastics.
34. Gymnastics competitions.
35. Pizza popcorn and movies on a Friday night.
36. Spending more time at the gym. Or at least trying to.
37. Staring at the Lubbock loop and Marsh Sharp from my office window.
38. Laughing at people trying to predict prices (just like they did in this post I did in 2016!).
39. Rolling my eyes at how stupid some people are when it comes to business.
40. Discovering what it was like not to have extended time off work for almost a year. 🙄
41. Taking notes and wishing others did the same.
42. Walking to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream on Saturday.
43. Having a higher percentage of total income flow from assets.
44. Watching compound interest (finally) catch an inflection point.
45. Becoming skeptical about the moon landing.
46. Taking up jigsaw puzzles with the wife.
47. Learning to care for a sad person.
48. Tucking in my youngest. Every. Single. Night.
49. Reading fewer books this year than I have since I was 18.
50. Still not caring about cars.
51. Finding a new Sunday School class.
52. Baptising my oldest.
53. Subscribing to Twitter Blue and testing some paid advertising.
54. This ridiculous commercial.
55. Eating lunch at the kindergarten table.
56. All the kindergarteners calling me batman.
57. Realizing batman has a superpower.
58. Getting a batphone.
59. Writing this letter to people who unsubscribe from my newsletter.
60. Sending very few newsletters. 🤣
61. Testing affirmations.
62. My kindergartener, losing her first tooth.
63. Getting my own mad money stash.
64. Buying way too many Smart Waters.
65. Stickers from beautiful girls.
66. Buying popcorn at the movies.
67. Missing family Thanksgiving because of the flu.
68. Daydreaming of that cafe energy.
69. Drinking more coffee than last year.
70. Being sad about Mike Leach.
71. Eating lunch at my desk.
72. Watching the Kentuck Derby. 😳
73. Watching more stand-up comedy than last year.
74. Pondering small houses and enjoying my small house.
75. Christmas light scavenger hunts.
76. Ridiculous videos like this one.
77. Buying assets – and keeping it a surprise. (Shhh.)
78. Reminiscing about this concert I went to 23 years ago.
79. Starting more side projects.
80. Not telling anyone about my side projects.
81. Donuts.
82. Worrying about inflation.
83. Starting more side projects.
84. Shopping for couches.
85. Buying a new couch.
86. Appreciating solitude.
87. Writing a lot more poems.
88. Being called an “Oil Apologist.“
89. Investing in oil and watching equity markets melt.
90. Getting ready to retire.
91. Ridiculous and unnecessary work stress.
92. Watching Disney shows with the kids.
93. Watching The Frech Dispatch.
94. Avoiding a midlife crisis.
95. Giving more.
96. Teaching my kids about giving.
97. And then my kids finding videos like this.
98. Not giving up.
99. Making big plans for 2023.
100. Another year with these girls.

[Here is 2018, 2019. And 2020]

1. Days just like today.
2. Epic snow days.
3. Listening to Kacey Musgraves with the kids.
4. Encouraging independence, even when it’s hard.
5. Screaming two-year-olds.
6. Appreciating the enormity that words can have.
7. Making small financial bets.
8. Panera Bread.
9. Finding and reading If, By: Rudyard Kipling.
10. Not complaining, just doing the work.
11. Sunday afternoon board games.
12. Being a writer.
13. Finding this old work picture.
14. Letting the kids run free.
15. Hitting 5000 posts.
16. The year of hypomone.
17. Mindless music.
18. This video on devs watching QA’s test their product.
19. Coming to terms with Ravi Zacharias.
20. Writing more poems.
21. Catching COVID.
22. Surviving COVID quarantine. 🙄
23. New hotels.
24. Turning 40.
25. Working on my personal monopoly.
26. Renting out an entire movie theater for my birthday.
27. Being thankful – and eating pie.
28. Daydreaming.
29. The pitter-patter of two-year-old feet.
30. Laughing about being a BA, PO, and dev.
31. A silent office.
32. Sometimes giving myself a parenting break.
33. Rebellion in the margins.
34. Watching Ben Folds write a song.
35. Singing with these kids.
36. Watching Ecanto with these kids.
37. Trying to build a personal monopoly.
38. Realizing how well-off I am.
39. Laughing at all the boring problems people complain about.
40. Caring less and less if a particular post resonates.
41. Oil prices booming higher, once again.
42. Reflecting on an ideal workday.
43. Making cheap art.
44. Multiple streams of income.
45. Eating more steak.
46. This snow camping video.
47. Drinking more Perrier.
48. These 17 writing tips.
49. Leaving old jobs.
50. Taking four weeks off to truly unwind. (For part of it, I did this.)
51. Staring new jobs.
52. Embracing the serendipity of jobs.
53. Watching traffic from my new office.
54. Discovering Pretend It’s A City, with Fran Lebowitz.
55. Trying to have fewer ideas.
56. Short chapters.
57. Using frequent flier miles.
58. IT humor.
59. Cold drinks on hot days and hot drinks on cold days.
60. Finding the post linked here on How To Be Great.
61. Living like a pauper, relative to income.
62. Starlings in flight.
63. Watching children and the joy of elevator buttons.
64. Realizing McDonald’s is in the real-estate business, actually.
65. Trading futures contracts again.
66. Visiting Booked Up in Archer City (Larry Mcmurtry’s bookstore).
67. Being able to work from home when required.
68. This John Saddington keynote about building online.
69. Trying to not ask people to do bad favors.
70. Listening to Thomas Sowell.
71. Getting back into deadlifts.
72. Thinking about how movies are made.
73. Buying more domains than I will ever use.
74. Learning what a Japanese Kissa is.
75. Forgetting most of what I have done on this site.
76. Going back to Alabama.
77. Saturday morning cartoons with coffee and donuts.
78. This drummer video.
79. Long walks and Christmas light dancing in the eyes of my youngest.
80. Just. Clicking. Publish.
81. Remembering my $250,000 mistake.
82. Watching this video of Paris with my kids.
83. Thinking deeply about the philosophical direction of western culture.
84. Reflecting more.
85. Eating too many donuts on Saturday morning.
86. Writing a resignation letter and then blogging about it.
87. Appreciating humble beginnings.
88. Flying more.
89. Reading in airport restaurants.
90. Cleaning the kitchen. (I really do enjoy doing the dishes. (Laundry is for the birds.)
91. Falling in love with Legos all over again.
92. Exploring an abandoned cotton gin.
93. Learning how Russia got so big.
94. Listening to this Anne Lamott interview.
95. Getting one step closer to being semi-retired.
96. Trying to figure out this riddle.
97. Trying to go to bed earlier.
98. Cotton getting over $1 again.
99. Reading about Christian humanism.
100. Another year with these girls.