Blog Category: Impression Technique

Hal Elrod was dead for six minutes. The car he was driving crashed head on into a truck. His girlfriend, sitting next to him, was unscratched. The roof of the car sliced open his head, causing brain damage. Bones in his face, his arm, all over his body were broken and he was in a […]

Then they told me I had to either take a 50% pay cut or I would be fired. If I was fired they would give me severance. I didn’t like either choice. I had responsibilities. I was counting on the money. I was scared. I wasn’t expecting this. HR said, “I have to legally tell […]

  I’m feeling bad about the Neanderthals. But for $30 million I can buy one. Seriously. Since we mapped the Neanderthal genome, for $30 million I can now find a surrogate mother (Claudia Azula Altucher?) and a professor at MIT can, I don’t know, inject a Neanderthal into her womb. Or something like that. Something […]

I quit college and used the money to buy a car. The car was a used Honda Civic. I drove around for a few hours and then I dropped the car back off at the dealership and cancelled the check and went back to college. Two huge mistakes in one day. One was fun and […]

Ugh, I couldn’t finish. I quit. You ever have that ONE thing you want to finish but… you just… can’t? So I gave up. I did “productive procrastination”. Instead of doing my “A thing”, I did my “B thing”. We always have a B-Z. I watched a vlog by my recent podcast guest Casey Neistat. […]

I tried to read on a beach once. I got the very first Kindle. It didn’t have many books available but what it did, I downloaded and tried to read. But it was uncomfortable and hot and my wife and kids kept going into the ocean so I went back to the hotel room to […]

That moment when you realize you’re a little creepy. I’m giving a talk tonight to 150 people in Hoboken. I was going to write a different story about August 18, 1994. In Hoboken. But something happened. I took a walk earlier to prepare my talk and I settled into a cafe. I took out my […]