Randy Olson

In 2015, my map of an optimal U.S. road trip went viral.

People kept asking about it, so I brought it back.

Now you can pick landmarks and national parks and find the fastest driving order for your own trip.

Try it: optimalroadtrips.com

A $400,000 mortgage costs $1,098 more a month today than it did at the January 2021 low.

Rates went from a record-low 2.65% to 7.18% in under 6 years. The 30-year high was 8.64% in May 2000.

This year, a lot of us stopped reading AI agent output as chat and switched to HTML reports.

Now my agent goes further. It records a narrated demo of each change running in the real product and shows only what matters. It's way faster to review.

29% of US households are now 1 person living alone, up from 13% in 1960.

By 1971, homes with 1 person already outnumbered homes with 3. Today 39.7 million Americans live alone.

In 1 million simulated Monopoly games, rolling a 4 on your 1st turn cut your win rate to 14.9%.

An even share is 21.8%. Draw "Advance to Boardwalk" on turn 1 and you win 35.6% of games.