Rome fell because of greed, and this blog uses that as the frame for everything it says about the modern economy. The argument is broad and delivered with feeling rather than data, but the underlying point lands. Your limits are yours, not the economy's.
The sport is where the writing comes alive. Whether a middleweight champion should have taken a particular fight. Whether a basketball player with a title deserves to keep his critics. Whether the older combat sport has a future now the newer one exists. Bruce Lee gets a full tribute as the best there ever was.
He is honest about network marketing, saying most people who try it fail, rejoin something else and fail again, and that he has done exactly that himself. His advice is to pick two or three methods and stop collecting new ones.
There is a piece on a door from the Titanic and one on house music outliving hip hop.
Read the sport posts. He means every word of them.