Month: December 2025

Hey y’all, I hope you all had a good Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, or whatever other holidays you chose to observe during this festive time of year. While we’re all resting this week and getting ready to start 2026 on a good note, I decided it was a nice time to play some more…

There’s plenty of theses out there in the MS community on risk – pretty much every other blog out there has one. Over the course of your churning and MS career, your risk tolerance will fluctuate too. Plays and loops that once seemed daunting will soon become a ho-hum 30 second checklist item each day, week,…

We’re halfway through December, which means it’s officially that time of year in which every possible app, website, and community jumps on the “your year wrapped trend” that hasn’t really even been that interesting since Spotify first started it in 2015.  I’ll admit that I used to share mine thinking that people cared (they didn’t),…

One of the most difficult things to comprehend even at an intermediate or advanced level is the full potential of value associated with certain plays.  We’ve all been so conditioned to do the inane math of annual fee minus some arbitrary value of credits that Big Blog has beaten into us that reading between the…

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Pokemon cards (like most kids were back in those days). My parents used to take me to Books-A-Million on Saturdays for Pokemon League, which was essentially a chance to both trade cards and play competitively. At Pokemon League, I learned exactly what asymmetric negotiation was, as…

I was lucky to spend the last couple of weeks in the Caribbean (including the truly great Hermitage Bay) so I tried to be at least somewhat unplugged and not spend too much time thinking about churning and MS. More on that trip at some point in the future, but for the one sentence summary…