Not just the best-performing ones
I came to Medium 3 years ago with an edge.
A literary agent liked my proposal but asked where my audience was. It was a bit more insulting than that, but I saw Medium as an opportunity to build an audience, with an eventual plan to leave the platform, for bookshelves.
3 years and hundreds of pieces later, I’m still here, writing for the fun of it, the fulfillment of it, and now, totally for me.
Independent of performance, here are my favorite and most important original pieces on Medium.
Richie 🤠
Table of ContentsI. HumorII. Sobriety…
Alternative assets, record-high APY’s, local bakeries, and a racehorse
If I gave you $1,000 today, what would you invest it in to turn it into $2,000 by 2030?
This isn’t a cheesy social-media meme with an eventual punchline informing you that the dollars represent the seconds in a day, so make them count.
No, this is straight 2x talk.
With 46 million Americans holding Bitcoin, an asset up 288.56% year over year (Coinbase, 05/31/2021, 3:17 pm) a default answer might be digital gold, Bitcoin.
Shark Tank’s Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O’Leary, would advise against that though.
On episode 563 of the Pomp Podcast O’Leary shared with host Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano…
New beverages, new tools, new challenges, and an ethics decision for an entire segment
As the figures continue to pour in from what is expected to be the best performing Dry January in history, in terms of individual participants and non-alcoholic beverage sales, many are asking what comes next for this emerging category.
For Dry January participants, some, the Sober Tourists, a term coined by Tawny Lara to describe those who use Dry January to “try on sobriety”, will most likely return to drinking, mindfully. …
DeFi savings offers a high APY alternative to legacy institutions where funds lose purchasing power as interest is outperformed by inflation
In the month of June, the $500.42 balance in my Bank of America savings account earned $.01 of interest, increasing my starting balance for July to $500.43.
This penny earned equates to a monthly interest rate of 0.002%, and an annualized rate of 0.024%.
During the same time period, in a more aggressive High Yield Savings Account with Citizens Access, a balance of $9,250.00 earned $3.04, increasing my starting balance for the month of July to $9,253.04.
This equates to a monthly interest rate of 0.033%, and an annualized rate of .394%, …
Wharton’s top-rated professor for 7 straight years uses a 3-step blueprint when receiving feedback
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author who helps people find meaning and motivation at work.
He has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for 7 straight years and has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers in Fortune’s 40 under 40.
The guy knows things, about things.
I trust him, but that doesn’t mean that you should.
As you’ll learn in this piece, one should always consider the source of and interrogate information, rather than simply consuming it.
Adam Grant’s Blueprint For Receiving Feedback
On an episode of the Women Amplified podcast, award-winning journalist and best-selling author host Celeste Headlee…
The domesticated has dog dethroned the Beaver, earning this year’s world smartest animal distinction
From the bench of an all-white Steinway & Sons grand piano, the centerpiece in a marble-floored foyer with ceilings resting 30ft above, Adelaide, a 7-year-old Dalmatian, sat surveying the front lawn through arched bay windows, her tail hovering above the foot pedals.
She wears a fire engine red collar. Dangling off the front is a rose gold bone charm inscribed with her name and date of birth, May 9th, 2014. Her shoulders are peeled back, her paws neatly facing front. Her coat, as unique as any Dalmatian: short, fine, and dense, with black spots scattered from neck to rear.
It…
Digital Art is not a bubble, it is experiencing discovery in four categories
Mike Winkelmann is among the top three most valuable living artists in the world and you’ve never heard of him. Better know as Beeple, Winkelmann is the artist behind “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” the first purely digital artwork ever offered at auction by Christie’s.
The artwork sold for $69,346,250.
The collage by Beeple is composed of 5,000 original ‘Everdays’, digital works that Beeple has been creating each day for the past 13 ½ years, since his first on May 1st, 2007, a picture of his Uncle Jim, who he nicknamed Uber Jay.
An active list updated when my mind is blown 🤯
The Exploding Head emoji, as it is known, is defined as A yellow face with an open mouth, the top of its head exploding in the shape of a brain-like mushroom cloud. A visual form of the expression mind blown, it may represent such emotions as shock, awe, amazement, and disbelief.
^This is what happens to me when I listen to these podcast episodes.
Table of Contents🧰 How It Works🎙️ Episodes👨🎤 Author's Note
How This List Works
- New podcasts are added from top to bottom for convenience.
- New podcasts are added at random.
- All links direct to Spotify, though I am…
The nonalcoholic movement reserves 37% of the days in a calendar year, nearly three times as many as Meatless Monday
The first time Americans were asked to reduce their meat consumption was during World War I. With the help of soon-to-be president Herbert Hoover, the U.S. Food Administration coined a slogan: Food will win the war. It was an effort to care for struggling Allies and nourish U.S. soldiers overseas that included asking Americans to cut back on their fat, sugar, wheat, and meat consumption through Meatless Tuesdays and Wheatless Wednesdays.
The campaign returned during World War II when Presidents Roosevelt and Truman were called upon to help feed a war-torn Europe. …
Free feedback from trusted sources is nearly impossible to resist
When I joined my first start-up in the spring of 2016, I didn’t know what a lead was. I had been a sports captain before, what is short for that? My friend’s LinkedIn profile read “Product Lead”, was it a position?
I quickly learned that a lead is a person or business that has expressed interest in a brand’s products or services. A lead is a potential customer.
Next came the question of where leads come from.
The answer to that won’t fit in a blog. It’s a course, or better a masterclass, requiring contributions from hundreds of industry professionals.
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Richie Crowley
Rode a bike across America, wrote about it. Went sober, wrote about it. Built RICKiRICKi, wrote about it. Is a human, writing about it | Cr3ate @ RICKiRICKi.com
