Good morning Reader,

Did you know Amazon has an Alexa skill where you can ask it to send you samples? It's made by and after you set up the skill, you can ask Alexa to send you samples if they have them.

I explain it on Instagram, which has decided to cut off my hair whenever I use a green screen. 🤣

You can also sign up to SendMeASample.com directly and request samples. Right now they're giving a sample of Chomps.

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⏲️ It’s never too late

When I was younger, I was always in a hurry.

Things were never going fast enough. I was impatient. I wanted things to happen immediately and so I pushed and I pushed and I pushed.

I see that in our kids and while I never want to put speed limits on their desires and ambitions, it's important to remember that in many things, it's never too late.

👉 It's never too late

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📊 2026 Tax Brackets Are Out!

I know it's not the sexiest of subjects but it's still important!

The 2026 tax brackets, along with inflation adjusted standard deduction and other important numbers, were released by the IRS this week.

👉 2026 Federal Tax Brackets & Standard Deduction

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💻 Prediction markets want insider trading

Prediction markets are places where you can make bets on whether something will happen. Will team A beat team B? Who will win the Nobel Prize?

These markets are unregulated so insider trading is likely. Maybe not for a game but there are other events you can track, like who will be TIME’s Person of the Year for 2025, where someone is likely to know before the issue is released.

Lit Nomad argues that the prediction market's business model isn’t that of a sportsbook, trying to earn money by taking a cut of all the bets, but is closer to Bloomberg where you can sell the data. Prediction markets want insider trading because that’s valuable information that makes the predictions more accurate.

The video is only 11 minutes long and the final two minutes where he talks about creating markets and leveraging your insider information was less interesting to me (it's legally gray and not something I'd do) but it's an interesting view on these billion dollar markets.

👉 Quant explains how to actually get rich quick

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Talk to you soon!

Jim

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