On "the hustle".

"They'd do anything under the sun except work for a living." - Nelson Algren

The Chicago skyline one afternoon last July.

I used to think that doing Jiu-Jitsu and writing for a living made me a bit of a degenerate.

I now realize that I was kind of right.

I also now realize that I’m happy to be a degenerate.

I’d definitely rather be a happy degenerate than a miserable accountant, or whatever the hell else I’d be doing all day if it w…