Neil Pasricha is a 30 year old guy that started a blog called 1,000 Awesome Things in June 2008. His goal was to write about one awesome thing every day. Adversity struck shortly after. Pasricha’s best friend committed suicide and his wife wanted a divorce. Many of Pasricha’s Awesome Things hit the homepage of Digg regularly, thus leading him to win a Webby award. He also landed a book deal.