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Leveraging Failure: Reflective Summary [Lifestyle Design Year 6]
Nations: Irrelevant and Arbitrary Bastions of Bigotry
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If your workspace is rectangular in any way, you are a failure. We’re all friends here so let’s just be brutally honest. Ninety degree angles are feng shui code for a life devoid of all happiness. Parallel surfaces are a direct path to a devastating erosion of the soul. We hold these truths to be [...] Finish Reading »
Analyzing and deconstructing fear to rationally subdue or ignore it when appropriate. Have you ever imagined jumping off a building? How about jumping out a window? As you think about jumping, what height feels comfortable without a significant fear of being injured? How far do you think you could jump before it would kill you? [...] Finish Reading »
For me, publishing my writing in a public forum and interacting with as many of you as possible serves (in no small part) as free therapy. Side question: Why is self-indulgence supposedly a bad thing? Of course, the ultimate goal for any neurotic is to get someone to pay to be their therapist. Patience Andrew… [...] Finish Reading »
(and Why She’ll Never Admit It) Forget everything you know about society. Forget everything you know about culture. Forget everything you know about psychology. Forget everything you know about relationships. If the topic of this article doesn’t destroy your conception of reality, I’ll be forced to keep writing until it happens. How’s that for an [...] Finish Reading »
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What’s up with that image? Hmm… I just liked it. Maybe we’ll say I’m trying to stitch together a unified theory of lifestyle design. Maybe. August 27, 2004 was my last day working at a job I didn’t invent. I recently wrote a 4 part series of posts describing a few of the things I’ve [...] Finish Reading »
I waste a lot of time clicking the back button on a lot of blogs that consist mainly of recycled information apparently gleaned from self-help books. These blogs often have a zillion comments telling the author how brilliant they are and how much everyone agrees with the platitudes they offer and how much they love... Finish Reading »
Anyone who has felt the urge to travel the world already instinctively knows the construct of nations is contrary to human desire. This isn't an attack piece aimed at any particular country. In the spirit of skepticism, I have to question why nations came into existence and do a bit of a cost-benefit analysis on the idea within our current context. Finish Reading »
I don’t participate in economic downturns. In the company I was running in 2008, one of my first acts at the beginning of the recession talk was to introduce a corporate resolution stating that we respectfully declined to take part in any recession. Of course, that’s meaningless from an economic level. Our surrounding realities are our... Finish Reading »
Shortcut: If you don’t think sincere evaluation of narcissism’s meaning is important enough for you to invest time examining, don’t use the word. The word ‘narcissism’ is nefarious. It is a weapon in a similar vein as the word ‘racism’. It is the same in that it is essentially an epithetical hit-and-run weapon to which there... Finish Reading »
“I’ve seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.” 3 Timothy 5:11 If you’re reading this in anything less than your Sunday-best underwear, you will go to Hell. So roll whoever you dragged home from the club last night out of the way, dig around under the covers until [...] Finish Reading »