Blog Category: Impression Technique

One time I tried to move into a homeless shelter in Pittsburgh. I had this image that it would be like some sort of sex dormitory. I would meet all of these homeless ex-prostitutes or lonely single mothers and we would sneak into each other’s rooms and fall in love. We would whisper really quietly […]

You ever wake up and you just don’t feel like moving? Then you have coffee but you don’t feel like getting to work? There’s a scary feeling in your stomach and the coffee just makes it worse. And then you get to work and you just don’t feel like talking to anyone? You feel like […]

I lied to him to get a job. The hedge fund manager asked me how much money I had in the bank. I had ZERO but I said, “a million dollars”. This was in 2002. In the prior two years I had lost all the money I ever made and my home. Now I was […]

Story #1:  One time Barry Diller was visiting Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The topic of the meeting was to see how the greatest media mogul could work with the greatest Internet moguls. It was like two galaxies colliding to create something beautiful when seen from light years away. Larry Page was texting or doing […]

Rob told me JB was dead. JB was my best friend growing up. We sat next to each other on the bus. After school we’d play ping pong or pinball or monopoly or ride bikes. Every single day we did this for eight years. Then we drifted apart. Rob said, The last time I spoke […]

“If you’re constantly watching five naked girls having sex with dildos it actually could lower your lifespan.” “Excuse me, what?” I said. I was talking to John Romaniello (“Roman”). We were randomly sitting next to each other at a dinner Tim Ferriss threw when he was launching his book, ‘The Four Hour Chef.’ Roman had […]

The woman sitting behind me on the train kept saying into her phone, “He was obsessed with talking about my vagina. Is that weird?” I was trying to listen to her conversation. But now her voice was lower. “Should I feel guilty about what I did?” she was saying. I really wanted to know what […]