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2026 4

  1. Memecoins *ARE* Real World Assets
  2. Less Trading, More Time
  3. The Most Important Link on the Internet
  4. Becoming a Net Producer

2025 14

  1. Personal Finances Update // Betting on Farcaster
  2. Working for your bags
  3. Moment Coins
  4. Why I Decline Collaborations
  5. [UNTITLED]
  6. INTERESTING VS. IMPORTANT (WORK)
  7. I DON'T KNOW
  8. Blogcoins
  9. dayof.life
  10. Everything is money
  11. quitting vs. persisting
  12. The Big Bunny
  13. 3 Days, No Food, No Phone
  14. The Mysterious Successes of Opposite Approaches

2024 22

  1. Introducing: Purple People
  2. Sacrifice, Greatness, Pragmatism, Optimism, Doubt, and Faith
  3. What Do You Do And Why?
  4. NFTs explained (so anyone can understand)
  5. Business Counsel
  6. Coffee & Streaks
  7. The Creative Act – On Trust, Process & Faith
  8. Value After Crypto
  9. Publishing Channels
  10. Human Strength
  11. Post-Lottery Life
  12. Minimum Viable Editing (MVE)
  13. Podcast Guest Prominence
  14. Escaping Negative Loops
  15. Worthwhile Experiences > Lifelong Careers
  16. Impressively You
  17. The Score Takes Care of Itself
  18. Mississippi and North Carolina, the next Florida and Texas?
  19. The Best People to Learn From
  20. Introducing: The Subletter
  21. Processes & Goals
  22. TECHNO-OPTIMISTS

2023 19

  1. How I Value My Podcast Guests' Time
  2. How to be Phone-Free
  3. How to Escape Golden Handcuffs
  4. Catan, Backgammon, Calligraphy, and Basketball
  5. Effective Pushback
  6. On Seasonal Living
  7. Innovation, Regulation, Network Nations
  8. How to Get Lucky
  9. How & Why I Quit Caffeine
  10. The Lighthouse
  11. The Mysterious Power of Writing Things Down
  12. Nobody Cares
  13. Sensible Ignorance of Optics
  14. Splashed on the Sidewalk
  15. What To Do When The Solution Comes To You (Spotify's AI DJ)
  16. The Time Between
  17. Audience Metrics Are Deceiving
  18. Audio-Only Is Underrated
  19. Think Big. Be Unique. Play All Day.

2022 1

  1. Worldcoin

2021 7

  1. My Next Chapter
  2. About BitClout
  3. Introducing: Coin of Jake ($JAKE)
  4. 40-Hour Fast
  5. Considerations of a Podcaster
  6. Request for Startup #2: Two New Kinds of Match Apps
  7. Request for Startup: A New Kind of Podcast Platform

2020 176

  1. Acting on Inspiration vs. Working on Schedule
  2. 10x Technologies
  3. Escaping The Pro-Aging Trance: Hope for Longer, Healthier Lives
  4. 2021: A Better Year
  5. The Habit of Walking
  6. Request for Startup: Harmless Vape
  7. The Fundamentals of Bitcoin
  8. Connecting The Dots
  9. America, The Nation of Emigrants
  10. Written in Stone
  11. Fresh Asphalt & Road Signs
  12. The Morning Journal
  13. Taylor Swift & The Street Singer in Thailand
  14. The Benefits of Believing Everything Happens for a Reason
  15. A Cost-Effective Podcast and Blog
  16. A Guide To Getting The Sleep I Didn't Know I Needed
  17. Insatiability - a blessing & a curse
  18. A Minimalist's Favorite Products Under $100
  19. Positive Thinking, Positive Teaching
  20. Recommendation Reciprocation
  21. Screen Time, The Social Dilemma, and My Plan To Fix My Phone Addiction
  22. The Time I Thought I Invented ISAs (Income Share Agreements)
  23. "We should" vs. "I will"
  24. Don't dread the end
  25. The Julia Jackson Speech
  26. Uniting The Divided States of America
  27. How Rolling Funds Could Rock VC
  28. Profile Update
  29. The Things You Want To Do and The Things You’ll Be Glad You Did
  30. Introducing: Pod of Jake
  31. The Surprising Value of Catching Up and Getting Ahead
  32. First day of work advice
  33. Biden’s VP Guarantee
  34. Profitably Unemployed
  35. Projecting Bitcoin's Price with Popularity (Google Trends)
  36. How to make more good decisions
  37. Conversing with Socrates (GPT-3)
  38. The Blue Check Hack: Who, How, and Why?
  39. A Case for Being Careful with COVID
  40. Preoccupied with Occupations
  41. Bitcoin’s Belief System - The Driver of Value
  42. Bitcoin Top 100 Analysis
  43. A Vote for Younger Presidents
  44. Tesla is awesome but overvalued
  45. Improving Conversations
  46. Great Year for a Gap Year
  47. Why "I don't have time" is a lie
  48. Time & Money
  49. How to live longer and healthier
  50. Queen & Slim
  51. 26
  52. A New Chapter for Blog of Jake
  53. The things you do
  54. Times Ain't Fair by Souls of Mischief
  55. Scrabble
  56. Joe Rogan & Elon Musk
  57. Compound Interest
  58. Words have no inherent meaning.
  59. I Got The... by Labi Siffre
  60. Amicalola Falls
  61. The Healthy Habits of Jack Dorsey
  62. I believed in...
  63. There is no good or bad.
  64. You Really Got a Hold on Me by Percy Sledge
  65. Bear Paw Trail
  66. The Story of David Goggins
  67. Make the days count
  68. SpaceX/NASA - a launch worth seeing live
  69. I don't know much...
  70. Sweet Thang by Shuggie Otis
  71. Blue Ridge, Georgia
  72. How to Get Rich - Naval Ravikant
  73. Connecting the dots
  74. Experimenting with Blog of Jake
  75. How not to spend half of my life on my screens
  76. Investing in the 1950s
  77. Do not negotiate with yourself
  78. The Weekend Miscellaneous #14 (17 miles, Banana bag, Ferriss & Naval, Mr. Feynman)
  79. The Dream of Life
  80. The Loser's Game of Competition
  81. The $100 Million Pizzas
  82. COVID-19 vs. Child Mortality
  83. The Weekend Miscellaneous #13
  84. Simply Begin Again
  85. Finding Meaning in the Absurd
  86. Sitting by the pond
  87. The Moment I Became Climate Neutral
  88. The Weekend Miscellaneous #12 (Record runs, Books on the Climate Crisis, Brody's ashes)
  89. Pale Blue Dot
  90. Investing in Trust and Access through Trust and Access
  91. 3 Lessons from investing in Tesla
  92. The Virus Is Not Our Only Problem
  93. The Weekend Miscellaneous #11 (Grilled Fries, Elon on AI, Atomic Habits, Sunday Run)
  94. The Great Dictator Speech
  95. Going outside again
  96. Earth Day 2020
  97. Defining Altruism
  98. The Weekend Miscellaneous #10 (Does cannabis consumption in moderation make people lazy?)
  99. Minimalism
  100. Dare to be judged
  101. Don’t count the days
  102. Universities' New Freemium Strategy
  103. The Weekend Miscellaneous #9 (1979 Movies, Maples/Rabois, Home Haircuts, Naval/Balaji, Andrea Bocelli)
  104. The Possibility of Vicelessness
  105. Reasons to run
  106. What the USA can learn from the NBA
  107. Smoga (Stretching + Meditation + Yoga)
  108. The Weekend Miscellaneous #8 (Bill Withers, The Way Back, Unscrypted, COVID-19K Run)
  109. COVID-19K Feeding America Fundraiser
  110. The Zoom Boom
  111. Privacy, Freedom, and The Less United States
  112. The Eleven Human Needs
  113. The Weekend Miscellaneous #7 (Six Easy Pieces, Burn After Reading, Bedminster Pizza, TTYL, Bombshell)
  114. Steve Jobs' Life By Design
  115. Why buy a share of Amazon today
  116. Seeing the Future in the Dark
  117. My First 1-Hour Meditation
  118. The Weekend Miscellaneous #6 (The Prof G Show, The Pond, Joe & Naval, Scrambled Eggs)
  119. "Work Hard, Have Fun"
  120. Peace by Common Enemy
  121. Appreciating Amazon
  122. Universal Basic Income
  123. The Weekend Miscellaneous #5 (NJ Toll Booth, The Salt House, Ferriss/Kornfield, How to Get Rich, Catch Phrase, Knives Out)
  124. I don’t know much, but at least I know that.
  125. Coronavirus - Reasons for Optimism Today
  126. Parables & Allegories
  127. Coronavirus - Predictable Reactions & Prudent Preparations
  128. The Weekend Miscellaneous #4 (Shabbat, Tompkins Square Bagels, John’s, Veniero’s, Café Mogador, East Village Pizza, Mimi Cheng’s, 1917)
  129. Running in the winter in the rain
  130. Introduction to Bitcoin
  131. Catching of the Dog
  132. Shower Music
  133. The Weekend Miscellaneous #3 (Lil Frankie's, The Big Sick, Violet, Pasquale Jones, Family Sunday)
  134. No Meat Week (1st Week of March)
  135. Coronavirus
  136. Read-only emails
  137. 70/30 vs. 51/49 decisions
  138. The Weekend Miscellaneous #2 (Motorino, Primal Fear, Frank, Peppi's Cellar, B&H Dairy, Málà Project, Tre Panche)
  139. The Remote Workplace Problem
  140. A Contrarian Take on Bloomberg's Debate
  141. Good & bad, right & wrong, and the meaninglessness of words
  142. Multivariable Investing
  143. The Weekend Miscellaneous #1 (Parasite, Planning, Before Sunrise, Bedford, F&F, Di Palo's)
  144. A Principle for Lifelong Meaningful Relationships
  145. Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
  146. Regret Minimization Framework for Decision-Making
  147. Severance for All + Why Carta is Undervalued
  148. Updated Eating Practices + Places to Eat in NYC
  149. The Revolution Will Be Voice-Activated
  150. fireresumes.com
  151. Who Won Iowa?
  152. The Shortcomings of a Salary Mindset
  153. The Tonight Show
  154. Sweetgreen
  155. Choices We Control
  156. Birthdays
  157. MasterClass
  158. Kobe
  159. The Impending Correction of Political Correctness
  160. The Misleading Debut of Zion Williamson
  161. Don't > Can't
  162. The Gluten-Free Vegan Diet, Intermittent Fasting, and Green Smoothies
  163. MLK Day
  164. Circles
  165. Hoop Dreams
  166. Last night's debate
  167. Killer Heat
  168. Why I quit my job as an investment banker
  169. Outlier
  170. My Morning Routine
  171. Tesla
  172. Jerusalem
  173. In Israel for the Soleimani assassination
  174. Masada / Dead Sea
  175. The Negev Desert
  176. Tel Aviv

2019 24

  1. The Worst Times Get Better
  2. Borders of Israel
  3. Shabbat
  4. Day 1 in Israel
  5. Birthright - 10 Days in Israel
  6. Merry Christmas!
  7. Housing the Homeless
  8. Jay-Z on Spotify
  9. The Animal School, by George Reavis
  10. Why I would not subscribe to my own blog
  11. No such thing as good or bad
  12. DMVs and defaults that quietly drive decisions
  13. Fast Solutions for Slow Readers
  14. How to eat nigiri
  15. What do you want to be when you grow up?
  16. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring
  17. No Meat Week
  18. Sunday football followed by 60 Minutes
  19. How rabbits conquered Australia
  20. Consider the colorless iPhone
  21. A cup without a lid
  22. Painkillers, coffee, and the concept of withdrawal reversal
  23. The Art of the Cold Email
  24. Being a fan of the Jets, Mets, and Knicks