You'll never be ready for anything that matters

In 2022, I was an alcoholic with a newborn baby and a startup, so I decided to ride a bicycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles (877km or 545mi).

AIDS/Lifecycle is a great charity (donate), but it was insanely selfish of me to commit to something like this at the time. I am so grateful for Chelsea, who supports my ambitions and forgives my folly.

This decision defied logic. Dad bod claimed me long before the baby arrived. I knew nothing about cycling. I did not own a bike.

But I had to change something -- no, I had to change myself. To become somebody else, I decided to start living somebody else's life. I don't remember how the bicycle got involved.

I wasn't ready to be sober, nor to be a father, nor to start a company, nor to ride that bike.

Seriously, I rode the first 100 miles with two flat tires because I assumed all tubes needed exactly 12 PSI.

You'll never be ready for such things. Do them anyway.