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 [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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...