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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 […]

Do you have a backlog of books, ebooks, articles, podcasts, videos, and other media content that you want to consume, but don’t have the time? Be honest… will you ever have the time? It’s time to clean things up and get your media backlog under control. Here’s how you can do it. Round up all […]

STATUS: Active Prospect Willy Adames is a Dominican player who was signed by the Detroit Tigers as an international free agent when he was just 16 years old. From 2015-2018, he was one of the top prospects in Major League Baseball. He currently plays shortstop for the Milwaukee Brewers. Autograph Card 2019 Topps Tribute Baseball […]

The book The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho was about accomplishing your “personal legend.” The idea behind movie Soul related to finding your “spark.” The book Volcanic Momentum, by Jordan Ring spoke of “destiny goals.” What is that big thing that you’re going to devote your life towards? What in your life is worth fighting, and […]

Today, StormShock.com turns 22 years old. It was the first domain name I ever purchased, and I bought it from GoDaddy. I was 20 years old and a computer science student in college. Here is the first Wayback Machine snapshot of StormShock, from March 2, 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20010302221852/http://www.stormshock.com/ Back then, I populated a history database and […]

STATUS: Active Prospect Selected by the Colorado Rockies in the second round of the 2013 MLB Draft, Ryan McMahon has become a staple of the Rockies’ lineup. In 2022, he signed a contract extension to keep him with the Rockies’ organization until 2027. He has been a decent hitter with steady performance over the years, […]