It is not easy for me to be honest. I grew up thinking I had to lie to people to get them to like me. I needed to somehow be someone…
It is not easy for me to be honest. I grew up thinking I had to lie to people to get them to like me. I needed to somehow be someone I wasn’t in order to burn away invisible scars that I was sure everyone could see. I thought I had to, for instance, […]
G wrote me last night: “Dear James, I find your posts disturbing and troubling, especially considering your influence and reach. You operate at close to genius level; you are one of life’s…
G wrote me last night: “Dear James, I find your posts disturbing and troubling, especially considering your influence and reach. You operate at close to genius level; you are one of life’s winners, a product of Cornell and CMU. But most,if not all, your fan’s are mediocre, and shouldn’t be deluded into thinking they can […]
I give up. I can’t tell my kids not to go to college. I have tried all the usual statistics: A) student loan debt you’ll never be able to pay back. B…
I give up. I can’t tell my kids not to go to college. I have tried all the usual statistics: A) student loan debt you’ll never be able to pay back. B ) for the first time ever, greater than 50% of the unemployed have college degrees. So that whole myth of “you can’t get […]
The first girl I dated after separating from my wife asked me what my net worth was on our first date. I was honest and I told her. She said, “that’s…
The first girl I dated after separating from my wife asked me what my net worth was on our first date. I was honest and I told her. She said, “that’s not enough.” I asked her what her ex was worth but she said, “why do people always ask that.” Her ex was well […]
(source: xkcd.com) Two people wrote to me very upset about my last article. Everyone on the Internet has to be in agreement. OR ELSE! The first: I had written: “Peace can…
(source: xkcd.com) Two people wrote to me very upset about my last article. Everyone on the Internet has to be in agreement. OR ELSE! The first: I had written: “Peace can only come from peaceful people.” But AK wrote: “Really? Is that what stormed the beach at Normandy? Peaceful people? No. Hard men win […]
Martin Luther King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 and he’s a buddhist monk and peace activist. And when he was standing right in front of me…
Martin Luther King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 and he’s a buddhist monk and peace activist. And when he was standing right in front of me tonight I was blown away by what he said. We went to an opening for an exhibit of his calligraphy. He looked like […]
A friend of mine just became the victim of serious identity theft. Someone used her social security info and other identity info to create a series of credit cards over the…
A friend of mine just became the victim of serious identity theft. Someone used her social security info and other identity info to create a series of credit cards over the past seven years. For the past two years he had stopped paying the bills. Her credit rating fell from 780 to 530. The […]
