In this week's P.O. Box:

It’s been three months since I tried to sketch out a “roadmap” for 2025 aka some goals for the year.

Considering, my work will pick up greatly after the NFL Draft in two weeks, I figured now would be a good time to do a quarterly check-in and see how we are doing with some of these…

❌ A fitness challenge. I had been tossing around the idea of setting a running goal around a 5k time, but ultimately decided I didn’t want to spend all of my exercise time running. While I don’t have a specific goal/challenge at the moment, I am enjoying my lifting program right now and currently focusing on going hard/pushing to failure as much as possible.

🟡 Book Club pt. 2. We aren’t on the same pace as we were last year when we were banging out 2 books/month, but I’m enjoying the more relaxed cadence. Empire Of Pain really gripped me.

✅ More stretching/yoga. I’ve been going to a yoga studio two times/week. I’ve discovered that I love doing yoga before lifting as a warm-up, so I’ve been trying to stack those two together as much as possible.

✅ Offseason work/content projects. I’ve been getting up earlier this year on week days to write and work on projects. It’s a new-ish thing for me, but it’s allowed me to get in a lot of focused work in a short amount of time with no distractions. I’m chipping away at a big project that I’ll share more details on this summer, but I still have a long way to go.

The Deposit Kingdom videos will start to rip again after the Draft (check out the Trump spoof and the Travis Hunter one if you haven’t yet).

🟡 Less phone time. Becoming a hardcore #hoops guy for a few months made it tough to ditch the phone fully, but I’ve still been good at maintaining my no phone in the bedroom rule and ditching it for large chunks of the weekend. Hoping to keep that momentum going this summer.

✅ Alcohol detox. This is probably the one I’m most proud of. This stretch has to mark the least amount of alcohol I’ve consumed in a long, long time. I haven’t had a sip of the Devil’s juice inside my house so far this year. And when I do partake, it’s a special occasion (date night w/ Lauren, birthday party, etc.).

My sleep has improved greatly because of this and it’s also been much, much easier to keep up with health goals when cutting out the extra calories.

🤓 FANTASY LIFE: Ranking All 32 Potential Landing Spots For Rookie RBs. A fun exercise that should get you even more excited for this incoming draft class.

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☕ BEST BALL BREAKFAST: How Many Rookies Is Too Many Rookies? The one where I tried to pull off an all rookie RB room…

☣ LOLZ: Why Sims Can Only Take You So Far In DFS. Is it time to learn ball?

🚢 SHIP CHASING: 5 Distinct Tiers For 2025 Dynasty Rookie Drafts. We placed the 2025 rookie class into tiers for dynasty rookie drafts (superflex, TE premium).

⏰ OFF & ON THE CLOCK: The Defending Champ Reveals His NBA Playoff Best Ball Secrets. The defending champ in The Dance (and the 2017 WSOP Main Event winner), Scott Blumstein, joins us to discuss hoops and strategy for the playoff contests.

💪 THE SWOLECAST: A Real Live Masters Calcutta Draft. The one where I participated in my first Calcutta draft and broke the bank to land Scottie Scheffler.

🥃 DFS After Dark w/ Thor Nystrom. Thor is an animal when it comes to the NFL Draft. We discussed his process for ranking/evaluating 500 prospects each year and some of his contrarian draft taeks.

📈 ADP CHASING: The Best Rookie Values On Underdog Right Now. Jakob was on fire in this one.

DFS After Dark returns tonight at (8:15pm et). I’m going to draft a team in The Biggest Board contest ($250 entry, 30k to first) with some friends from the Deposit Kingdom:

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🚂 Book #3 for April (25%): The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen

Finally working my way through this month’s selection.

Who knew that bananas don’t grow on trees (they’re actually a large herbs) and that a bananas are actually berries?

The more ya know…

💉 Book #2 for March (FINISHED): Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.
🐃 Book #1 for February (FINISHED): The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

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