# young money (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover young money. Page: Feed: --- ## [29-Year-Olds Can Write Memoirs Too.](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/29-year-olds-can-write-memoirs-too) _2026-08-19 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ And that’s exactly what Young Money is: a memoir. ## [LEGO 2K Drive](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/08/lego-2k-drive.html) _2026-08-17 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ In no time at all, LEGO 2K Drive became the video game of the summer in our household. I'd added it to my library thank to PlayStation Plus some time back, but kept putting off playing it for one reason or another. Then out of the blue I received notice that the game's servers would soon be shutdown, meaning that its online multiplayer to be wound up in due course. Ordinarily this wouldn't have… ## [Success is the Best Revenge](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/08/success-is-best-revenge.html) _2026-08-10 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ Everyone wants to be successful. No one wants to go through life as a failure. Success is a journey, not a destination. Do not confuse your wins and achievements with being successful. Do not conclude that just because you have made mistakes or stumbles that you can never be successful. Do not confuse luck with success. Success is the product of your mindset, your habits, and choices. You are what… ## [The Art of Self-Promotion](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/the-art-of-self-promotion) _2026-08-09 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ And more thoughts on why "caring" is cool. ## [Young Money Launch Week Update!](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/a-very-good-book-launch-update) _2026-08-06 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ Could you help by ordering, reviewing, and telling your friends? ## [Intentionality](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/08/intentionality.html) _2026-08-06 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ The main argument put forward by Jack Raines in his book Young Money was that young people should live their lives in such a way as to maximize "intentionality" precisely because there is value to being young. Certainly, that advice may not be for everyone or may need to be taken with a grain of salt. For my part, however, I stepped away from the book intrigued by the very concept of… ## [Buy Your Copy of Young Money Today!](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/buy-your-copy-of-young-money-today) _2026-08-04 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ It's officially LAUNCH DAY! Snag your copy of Young Money today. ## [Young Money](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/08/young-money.html) _2026-08-03 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ As a mid-career man approaching late middle-age, I am clearly not the target demographic for Young Money , a book that then-twenty-eight-year-old author Jack Raines describes as "really a letter to my twenty-three-year-old self…unpacking the uncertainties of a young person's personal and professional journey through their twenties." Indeed, I'm well past that stage of my life and have no real… ## [Life Is a Stage-Specific Endeavor.](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/life-is-a-stage-specific-endeavor) _2026-07-28 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ An excerpt from my new book, Young Money. Pre-order your copy today, book goes live August 4th! ## [The Unaccountability Machine](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-unaccountability-machine.html) _2026-07-27 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ As I was reading The Unaccountability Machine it struck me that author Dan Davies comes across as akin to Archilochus' proverbial hedgehog (i.e., the one with the single big idea). Indeed, the book has all the energy of a man who realizes that he's decoded the secret to understanding the world and, thus burdened with such knowledge, is possessed by the desire to share that knowledge with anyone… ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YSi5COtL36TQ) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [The Cost of Apathy.](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/the-cost-of-apathy-959) _2026-07-22 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ Modern life has a modern problem: we don't have to do anything. ## [All](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/07/all.html) _2026-07-20 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ Can you have it all? Why, yes. You can, indeed. But it will depend on how you define your “all.” So the essential question isn’t really, “Can I have it all?” Instead, the question you should be asking is, “What is my ‘all?’” as well as, “Why’s it important for me to have it?” Answer those questions, and you will have made a meaningful step towards having it all. ## [Three Weeks Until Book Launch!!](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/three-weeks-until-book-launch) _2026-07-14 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ Order your copy today! ## [The Practice of Not Reacting](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-practice-of-not-reacting.html) _2026-07-13 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ When I picked up Kusunagi Ryushun's The Practice of Not Reacting: Zen Wisdom for a Happy LIfe , I assumed that it was being figurative about the "Zen wisdom" it sought to impart. Certainly the title caught my eye--because who wouldn't want to have a little more self-control in the face of difficulties, right?--and so I thought that if I could learn a thing or two how to be a little more Zen when… ## [Same Difference](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/07/same-difference.html) _2026-07-06 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ Something that's been on my mind: At a high enough level of abstraction everything appears to be the same. On the other hand, at a high enough level of detail everything appears to be different. Strangely, however, this appears to be true for anything along the same spectrum. Yes, at the end of the day, we're all atoms. But even atoms are different. Et cetera . Or to put it differently: So we're… ## [The Cost of Status](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/the-cost-of-status) _2026-06-30 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ A few thoughts on the status trap of those born into wealth. ## [More Kindness, Not Less](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/06/more-kindness-not-less.html) _2026-06-29 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ When people abuse our kindness, it’s only natural to respond by being a little less kind. Or a lot, even. “Never again!” we might tell ourselves, foreswearing the possibility that someone may once more play us for the chump or the patsy again in the future. All things considered, it’s perfectly normal. But also maybe a little bit wrong (or a lot, even). Because a lot of the time, when people abuse… ## [29% Loaded](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/29-loaded) _2026-06-22 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ One year left until I'm officially "washed." A few of my current thoughts on the world below. ## [The Almanack of Naval Ravikant](http://brianbelen.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-almanack-of-naval-ravikant.html) _2026-06-22 · Brian L. Belen · BRAIN DRAIN_ What I used to love about X when it was still Twitter (or before it became toxic) was the serendipity of discovering and learning from interesting people or people with interesting ideas. That's how I first came to know of Naval Ravikant, often mononymously referred to simply as "Naval." Some time back, I noticed that his posts were being shared by accounts that I followed, and thus I came to… ## [Getting Ahead Without Getting Dumb](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/getting-ahead-without-getting-dumb) _2026-06-19 · Kim Lear · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ Also: The best commencement speeches ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rJI9fIkXSMcs) _2026-06-19 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [The World Needs Less "Content," Not More](https://www.youngmoney.co/p/the-world-needs-less-content-not) _2026-06-17 · Jack Raines · Young Money by Jack Raines_ Get your slop out of my inbox, and a few other thoughts. ## [Look Back and Look Ahead](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/look-back-and-look-ahead) _2025-12-31 · Kim Lear · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ Lessons from a year of uncertainty ## [Generational Lessons from NYC’s Mayoral Race](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/generational-lessons-from-nycs-mayoral-522) _2025-11-08 · Kim Lear · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ Gen Z, Democratic Socialism, and a New New York ## [The End of Reading and Wrinkles](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/the-end-of-reading-and-wrinkles) _2025-10-17 · Kim Lear · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ + The Life of a Showgirl ## [Male Friendships, Brain Gyms, & Millennial Throwbacks](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/male-friendships-brain-gyms-and-millennial) _2025-08-19 · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ Also: Fro-Yo ## [Best Commencement Speeches, Job Numbers, and a New School](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/best-commencement-speeches-job-numbers) _2025-07-11 · Kim Lear · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ Also: dressing for an interview ## [Gen Z’s Traditional Swing & AI-Boosted Employer Leverage](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/gen-zs-traditional-swing-and-ai-boosted) _2025-05-13 · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ Also: meet my 2025 summer internship cohort ## [The Cost of Convenience & Revival of Trying](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-convenience-and-revival) _2025-03-26 · Kim Lear · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ Also: why parents in tech are choosing art for their kids ## [Young Money & Old Tech](https://kimlear.substack.com/p/young-money-and-old-tech) _2025-02-07 · Kim Lear · Kids These Days with Kim Lear_ Young Money NBC: Fed Data Analysis , Wired: AI Financial Advisor , WSJ: Young Men and Gambling In 2017, Millennials were worth about $3.94 trillion. By 2022, that number ballooned to $15.95 trillion. The wealth of younger Millennials and older Gen Zers has exceeded expectations by 39%. Even with this newfound financial success, young people still feel strapped. This article talks about “phantom…