Three Weeks Until Book Launch!!

Order your copy today!

My first book, Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties, is coming out on August 4th. I wrote 270 pages on status games, opportunity costs, and the stage-specificity of life; topics that I think are particularly timely today. Pre-orders are crucial to a book’s success, and I would be super grateful if you snag your copy by pre-ordering below:

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Writing a book is a funny thing because you spend an exorbitant amount of cranking away on this thing, and then, like anything else in life, imposter syndrome kicks in as you ask yourself, “Is this thing I poured years of my life into good enough to share with the world?” After all, it’s tough to be objective about something you’ve read and reread so many times that you start to see sideways.

However! I’ve now had several friends read early drafts of the book, and their feedback has been validating (see the picture below). So, as we’re now three weeks out from my August 4th publishing date, I am asking, no, imploring, you to pre-order a copy of Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties for yourself, your son going back to college, your daughter starting her new job in the big city, your cousin who feels “stuck” in life, or all four.

Also, it’s pretty kick-ass seeing your book in hard cover for the first time.

And adding one more review from good friend, recent reader, and target demographic Kiera Klinsky for good measure:

“Huge fan of it, really. Well written, well paced, and informative, optimistic and interesting to read. Very much agree with all you said, especially on pursuing intentionality and combining the things you’re good at!”

A huge thank you to Morgan, Emily, Luke, and Kiera for volunteering your time to read through ~270 pages of Jack Raines brain blasts (and for the kind words that followed).

Now, a few thoughts on who should read Young Money, and why they should read it.

This is not a book that will tell you what to do with your life, but it is a book that will challenge you be more thoughtful about where and how you’re spending your time, particularly in early adulthood. Everything in life is a matter of opportunity costs, and the most expensive decision is indecision: failing to choose any particular thing, and just passively accepting life’s inertia.

The problem, especially for the young person, is that it’s difficult to measure just how expensive those opportunity costs are before a window of opportunity closes.

Do I work on Wall Street? Capitol Hill? What about teaching English in Ecuador? Should I marry my college girlfriend? Break up with a long-distance boyfriend? Move to a new city on a whim? Is it “too late” to make a career pivot? What matters now? What’s going to matter later? What does it feel like as you experience a shift in your life’s window of opportunities? Am I wasting my time?

Young Money is less-so a “here’s how you should live your life” book, and more of a “here’s how, and why, to figure out how to make the most of your time” book. If you’ve ever asked yourself any of the questions in the previous paragraph, then this book is probably for you.

And if this book is probably for you, then I’d love nothing more than for you to pre-order your copy here. Also, a few brief notes on pre-orders:

• Why do pre-orders matter?

  • I would like to hit the New York Times Best Sellers list, and a while the full formula for hitting such list is a bit of a mystery, a successful pre-order campaign contributes meaningfully.

  • Pre-orders inform bookstores of how many orders they should stock for initial runs of new launches.

  • I think I wrote something helpful and valuable, therefore, yes, I want the maximum possible number of people to read it.

• What formats are pre-orders available in?

  • Hardcover, e-book, and audio (I recorded the reading three weeks ago!)

  • Softcovers typically don’t hit print for a few months, dependent on initial sales in the other formats.

• Why should you pre-order?

  • See points 1-3 under “Why do pre-orders matter?”

Thanks for reading and see you in your inbox again soon,

- Jack

My first book, Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties, is coming out on August 4th. I wrote 270 pages on status games, opportunity costs, and the stage-specificity of life; topics that I think are particularly timely today. Pre-orders are crucial to a book’s success, and I would be super grateful if you snag your copy by pre-ordering below:

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