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I can picture it right now: my youngest daughter will one day breathe her last breath. She will be buried. And then she will be forgotten. Or the seas will rise up and claim us all. Or most of the people I know are mentally ill criminals. Or…I want pancakes. I want them right now. […]

I turn 49 today. I hope I die by the end of the day but my guess is it won’t happen. Although I’m totally fine with it. Not that I’m depressed. But I feel like I did a good job. It had its ups and downs. I’m ready for the next job. If there is […]

I didn’t even want to do a podcast. Too much work! And I’m too shy to ask guests to come on. And I get so nervous I hope each podcast will get cancelled. Or a natural disaster will happen. But I wanted an excuse to ask people how they made their lives better. Maybe I […]

Someone asked this on Quora. I decided to give my sage advice on the topic. One time I had two million dollars left. You have to be pretty damn smart to make two million dollars, I thought. And then I had an idea. Or rather, an opportunity presented itself. I needed to make a lot […]

I wanted to write the book that 20 years ago I wish I had read. That ten years ago I wish I had read. That five years ago I wish I had read. That yesterday I wanted to read. So today I published it. “Reinvent Yourself.” When I turned 40, a friend of mine threw […]

“You might do serious damage to your brain,” my 14 year old told me. She is my nutritionist. I tried a three day fast. I drank only water and had no food or anything else. On the first day I was hungry but I watched TV at night to distract me and then I fell […]

I was dating a girl and she said, “try Jaegermeister” and I said, “what’s that?” and she said, “oh, you are in for a surprise.” So I tried it. And tried it some more. And more. She was laughing. The bartender was flirting with her. I kept getting more. At one point I got up […]