Preorder Your Copy of Young Money, the Book!

Coming to a bookstore near you on August 4, 2026.

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🚨ATTENTION YOUNG MONEY READERS🚨

As some of you know, I spent the last ~year and a half, give or take, working on a book. Last Friday, I finally read the first physical copy: 272 pages of an “uncorrected proof for limited distribution.” I’m quite proud of this thing. It’s a mix of humor, philosophy, irreverence, and reflection, but, most importantly, it’s the book I wish I could have read when I was 22, and I think the contents of the book will be relatable to all of you.

I’ll give more details on “what” and “why” for this book in a moment, but first, I am stoked to announce that you can pre-order your copy of Young Money right now, available for delivery on August 4, 2026.

Pre-orders are super important as they show bookstores that people are interested in this particular book (thus telling those bookstores to stock up!) so if you’re considering buying Young Money, I’d love for you to pre-order a copy by clicking here:

So, what is Young Money?

In the last chapter of his memoir, Norm Macdonald warned us that “The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.”

Norm is right, but since this book is coming out while I’m in the last year of my 20s, my hope is that young people will listen to me. Young Money is a book on opportunity costs. Most specifically, the opportunity costs that come with that transitional period between “youth” and “adulthood.”

Your twenties should be an incredibly fun, exciting, adventure-filled decade of life. But they’re also filled with stress. Anxiety. Uncertainty. You have no money or skills, the guardrails of higher education are gone, and you are, for the first time, wholly responsible for the outcomes of “your life.”

You’re supposed to be planting the seeds that you want to compound for decades with a romantic partner and career. But memories compound, too, and what about the memories that you only have a few short years to create before the opportunity disappears? Fun nights out with friends? Taking an impromptu job opportunity across the world? Starting a business on a whim? Learning a new language, or taking up a new sport? With time comes complexity. Responsibility. Commitment. Risk.

It’s easy to get so preoccupied with chasing a particular thing, or, worse, reeling in indecisiveness worrying about chasing the wrong particular thing, that your youth goes by before you blink, and so many of the things that you wanted to do once you had a bit more money, stability, or certainty, are no longer available or enjoyable.

Anxiety and uncertainty are the biggest obstacles facing young folks today, and it’s my hope that this book can help a few of them navigate this highly-fun-but-equally-uncertain phase of life. (Of course, this book isn’t just for the younger folks in the room. While many of the stories in Young Money are reflections from my 20s, opportunity costs and the “stage-specificity of life” tend to be rather timeless topics).

So, anyway, if you’ve followed along for a while, or if you’re new here but you liked this piece, I think you’ll like this book, and I’d love nothing more than if you ordered your copy here:

A few other points:

• I’m going to, over the next four months, be ramping up the marketing a ton. 1) Please forgive me, and 2) if you know anyone who doesn’t follow me, but you think might benefit from this book, shoot them this blog post, too.

• If you work for a company, university, nonprofit, or other organization that would like to bulk order 25+ copies of Young Money, please add your information here.

• If you, or someone in your network, is a podcaster I should chat with, let me know with a reply to this email or DM on Twitter or Linkedin.

• I’ll be throwing a few different launch events in different cities this summer. Stay tuned.

Thanks for reading along, I hope you enjoy reading Young Money as much as I enjoyed writing it.

- Jack

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