What was I thinking?

I went back and looked. That thing about people spending $40 billion a year while drunk seems interesting. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Every day seems like a week now, every week seems like a year. That got me thinking: Well, what was I thinking about a year ago?

In my personal life, things were great—largely the same as now, except for the obvious (no global pandemic). We lived in the same house, I worked from home a lot. My daughter was in a different school but it wasn’t that different.

In those pre-Understandably days, I was writing Inc.com’s daily email. So, I reread my March 2019 newsletters to remember some of it.

The first newsletter, on March 1, 2019, included some lighthearted things, like a report that Dr. Seuss had a new book coming out out, 28 years after his death.

I included it largely because I liked my headline idea: “Hmm, what rhymes with 'posthumous?’” (Associated Press, 3/1/2019)

A few days later, I shared Michael Bloomberg’s announcement that he absolutely, positively, 100 percent wasn’t going to run for president. (Bloomberg, $, 3/5/2019), and San Francisco was bracing for another class of tech IP…