25th Hour Ideas
I'm Michael Gallagher. I started 25th Hour Ideas in 2020 as a place to explore ideas I found interesting and document what I was learning.
Since then, the subjects have taken me in a lot of directions: sports, economics, investing, technology, startups, leadership, decision-making, and the systems we use to make sense of the world around us.
The common thread is curiosity. I'm interested in understanding why things work, finding ideas that can be applied elsewhere, and turning what I learn into something useful.
Today, 25th Hour Ideas is a combination of three things:
Essays, frameworks, and lessons I've picked up from exploring business, sports, technology, investing, and life.
Some are deeply researched. Others are simply ideas I couldn't stop thinking about. The goal is less about having all the answers and more about working through interesting questions.
Things I'm actually building.
Some are businesses. Some are experiments. Some may go nowhere. I like the process of taking an idea, turning it into something real, and learning from what happens.
Conversations with people whose work I find interesting—from founders and entrepreneurs to coaches, athletes, investors, and operators.
The best conversations tend to leave me with a few ideas I want to keep thinking about.
The idea behind the name
There are only 24 hours in a day.
The name came from the idea that you don't necessarily need more time. You need to make better use of the time you already have.
That can mean finding a better system, making a better decision, learning something new, or simply spending more time on the things that actually matter.
That's what I'm trying to do here.
Find better ideas.