[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.

[Here is 2018. And here is 2019.]

1. Goode Company pecan pie.
2. This picture of 2020.
3. Watching the God Debates. Part I and Part II.
4. Not making A+ content.
5. Learning T.S. Eliot always had a day-job.
6. Discovering Amazon/Notebook.
7. Playing the quantity game – since quality is subjective.
8. This park.
9. Trying to foster creativity in these kids.
10. Seeing my wife make the top 20 under 40.
11. Simply doing the work.
12. This video of Will Smith.
13. Learning that I have never actually seen myself.
14. Reading Adorning The Dark, By: Andrew Peterson.
15. Pondering scalability and leverage.
16. Singing this song with my kids.
17. Realizing that the Lion King is a retelling of Hamlet, with lions.
18. Getting this coffee mug.
19. Saving more.
20. Writing more notes to my children.
21. Turning 39.
22. Writing in active voice.
23. Being more willing to look stupid.
24. Avoiding status games.
25. Spending more time at home than I thought possible.
26. More good days.
27. Spending more time remembering.
28. Watching Godspeed – The Pace of Being Known.
29. Getting to see my old Blue one last time.
30. Finding out my sister-in-law knew John Erickson.
31. Writing more things down.
32. Sharing secrets.
33. Paying attention to things that endure.
34. Reading The Book Of Idle Pleasures.
35. Burning old logs.
36. Thinking about ponds.
37. Watching this video, The Last Punchcutter.
38. Thinking about assets and liabilities in a different way.
39. Teaching my kids about earning a salary.
40. Paying attention to geography.
41. Learning what a foehn wind is.
42. Understanding more about people without children.
43. Not homeschooling.
44. Rural America.
45. Avoiding rona. (I think?)
46. Not over explaining myself to kids.
47. Sprezzatura.
48. Fasting more.
49. Repeating myself without anyone noticing.
50. Spending time in Midland, TX and pondering the oil business.
51. Doing a lot of this.
52. Avoiding a bear attack.
53. Watching a sports announcer do this.
54. Discovering the formula of copywriting.
55. Noticing birds for maybe the first time in my life.
56. Finding Double Tanks, TX.
57. Learning about Lonesome Dove Baptist Church.
58. Trying repetition and association out on people in subtle ways.
59. Running even more experiments.
60. Drinking more Topo Chico.
61. Rereading Mere Christianity, By: C.S. Lewis.
62. Finding this poem.
63. And this poem too.
64. Reaching 4000 posts.
65. Learning that shapes can have sounds.
66. Becoming a monopoly.
67. Driving late at night.
68. Making a sarcastic map of Texas.
69. These political ads.
70. Listening to this story about Steve Harvey’s grit.
71. Coronavirus memes.
72. Trying more to convey the universal in the particular.
73. Spoiling these kids.
74. Reading Loserthink, By: Scott Adams.
75. Watching Sofia The First.
76. Watching Andy Andrews explain 7 decisions we can all choose.
77. Thinking about mystery fiction.
78. Simple sentences.
79. Trying to up this parenting game.
80. Finding this video about the buttons on an F-15.
81. Writing over 200 more haikus. Like this one.
82. This documentary on Rich Mullins.
83. Keeping this thing going.
84. Listening to this haunting interview of Yuri Bezmenov.
85. Remembering Walter Williams.
86. Making it to San Antonio for a few days.
87. Granting wishes like this.
88. Compiling these 20 writing tips from John Erickson.
89. Seeing my kids draw their feelings.
90. Discovering the Hyatt Hill Country Sunday House.
91. Leaning in to my superpower.
92. Short form writing.
93. Giving up on handwriting.
94. This video on French butter.
95. Seeing the Gaylord Texan.
96. Blogging for one more year.
97. Controlling what I can control.
98. Refusing to live in fear.
99. Watching this Octopus dream.
100. One more year with these girls.