TODAY marks the 22nd anniversary of the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show, where Howard Neu and I brought domainers together and helped turn an isolated business into an industry. For more than 30 years, I’ve also posted nearly every single day. I spend 1 to 3 hours a day writing and posting. Some days more. Some days, MUCH more. That’s tens of thousands of hours sharing my experience, my reasoning, my mistakes, and my understanding of domains and business in general. Most of it for the benefit of others. That’s how I give back. Unfortunately, this industry has plenty of wise guys who, instead of appreciating the gift, try to shove it up my ass. But that’s never stopped me. Never will. I just send them to Siberia. 🤣🤣 Because among all those wise guys, individuals emerge who GET IT. They understand it. They apply it. They build on it. Some become millionaires. Years later, they come back and thank me. That’s why I do it. My return on that investment is knowing something I shared helped change someone’s life. That’s my charity. That's my giving back. And in my eyes, more valuable than money. Teach a man to fish...... It reaches people one by one, even when I never know who’s reading. My contribution is my TIME. My KNOWLEDGE. My EXPERIENCE. My willingness to explain what I see and WHY I see it. You can use it. You can dismiss it. You can disagree and explain why. But only a fool would spend his time attacking the person sharing it instead of examining whether there’s something there worth learning. I believe in karma. My job is to keep sending good waves into the world. Messages in corked bottles that may reach someone today, or someday. someone I never met and probably never will. The residue is goodwill and I believe the universe recognizes that. And like other priceless things I’ve developed in life, it can’t be bought. It’s earned, one gesture at a time. One lesson shared. One costly mistake avoided. One person who sees an opportunity they would have missed. Hard earned knowledge from the school of hard knocks, shared so someone else might find a win instead of a loss. That’s my charity. That’s my goodwill. And that’s how I try to give back every day of my life. My writings and the world are my witness. From pioneering alone in the mines, in the dark, learning as I went, to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. with my partner Howard beside me. He had stage presence, and I had stage fright. But somehow, because it mattered so much, I found the courage to stand before hundreds of people. My passion for domains overrode something I had feared all my life. And now, the final frontier: the Beanstalk Challenge. Over the years, the phrase I’ve used more than any other is “life-changing.” I try to do things that are life-changing for me and for others. 22 years later, you can still see how T.R.A.F.F.I.C. changed lives. Mine and others. Now the Beanstalk Challenge carries that same life-changing vision into the future. Thanks for coming along for the ride! Thanks for being part of the story! Thanks for sharing these life-changing moments!