STATUS: Retired Hero Bobby Abreu was a Venezuelan player who played 18 seasons in the MLB. He was a good hitter known for his plate discipline. Over the course of his career, he had over 10,000 plate appearances and had a .291 career batting average. Autograph Card 1997 Donruss Signature Autographs Rookie Card 1995 Bowman […]
Plus-Minus Curation
Let’s say you have a folder with 100 of your favorite music videos. However, you think that’s too many, so you want to bring it down to your top 40 favorites. One way to whittle down your collection is with what I call “Plus-Minus Curation.” You can keep track of your files using a spreadsheet […]
Shattered Glass
Taro stood in the room with the large window. The wooden floor boards creaked and the wind howled through the cracks in the walls. The window itself was coated in thick layers of grime, but you could barely make out the trees of the dark and menacing forest just outside. There was nothing in the […]
Resources for Learning More about Personal Finance
Money is believed to be the greatest concerns for most people today and whether at an individual, corporate or even national level, the subject of finance never fails to attract some degree of debate. Money has changed our outlook on many things. What was once considered as a comfort commodity has become a necessity. And […]
Al Oliver
STATUS: Retired Hero As a member of the famed “Pittsburgh Lumber Company” of the 1970s, Al Oliver helped the Pittsburgh Pirates win five National League Eastern Division titles. If he wasn’t forced to retire due to collusion by Major League Baseball, there is a good chance he could have went on to amass over 3,000 […]
Tournament Bracket Curation
Suppose you’re at an art gallery and you want to buy two paintings to hang on the wall in your office. There are nine paintings to choose from. How would you choose? One thing you might try is what I call tournament bracket curation. You pit the paintings against each other two at a time […]