a blog about nothing
Hello. My name is Matt. I’m a Husband, dad, full-time truck driver, and what I have always jokingly called myself… an “imaginary entrepreneur.” I have been driving a semi-truck for more than twenty years, and for about the last fifteen years, I have also been experimenting with blogging, internet businesses, …
We were back on the road again, less than a week after our travel volleyball trip to Milwaukee, WI. Another volleyball weekend. Another hotel. Another set of gym chairs that somehow all look the same, no matter what city you are in. This time it was Pontiac, Michigan. Only about …
We left Grand Rapids on Friday afternoon, thinking this was going to be a volleyball weekend. By the time we got home Monday night, it had turned into something bigger than that. A championship run. A migraine lesson at age fifty. And a quiet internal wrestling match with a casino …
Heading East in the Heart of a Michigan Winter January in Michigan has a way of lowering expectations almost immediately. After a full week of brutally cold temperatures and snowfall every single day in West Michigan, we fully expected the drive from Grand Rapids to the Detroit area to be …
I have a habit of getting excited about an idea, diving in headfirst, and then quietly questioning my life choices a few weeks later if the results don’t show up fast enough. Sometimes I stick with things long enough for them to work. Sometimes I don’t. Most of the time, …
I’ve been trying to make money on the internet for a long time. Long enough that I’ve seen just about every version of the dream come and go, sometimes multiple times. Blogs, ads, affiliate links, email lists, courses, communities, apps, and entire social media platforms that were once hot, then …
So you think becoming a millionaire means popping champagne, parking a Lambo in the driveway, and posting pictures of your toes in the sand while sipping a Mai Tai. I hate to ruin the fantasy, but the real definition is much less glamorous: a millionaire is just someone whose stuff …
So picture this… It’s still dark outside, I’m in my truck’s cab, sipping my trusty Costco Kirkland House Blend. It used to say “Roasted by Starbucks” on the bag, but now it’s gone. Kind of like when Pepsi ditched its classic logo for that awkward off-center smiley face thing back …
It was already dark on Thursday night when my son, Ethan, and I pulled up to the cottage on Hamlin Lake that our family rented for Labor Day weekend. My wife and my other two kids had arrived a few hours earlier and already started settling into our quaint little …
I recently had a conversation with Chat Jeepy T., a language model trained by OpenAI, about the question, “What is a woman?” As I quickly discovered, even the AI bots have already been trained to believe that this is a multifaceted topic with many layers of meaning and interpretation. In …