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HOW DO YOU FIND ETHICS WITHOUT A RELIGION? Jonathan Baker @jonathankyou  Asks: How do you establish ethics or recognize ones you already have? Especially when you don’t have a religion to tell you. ANSWER: It’s an interesting question when you add the “especially when you don’t have a religion to tell you”. Ask, “who told […]

Did I just do bullshit? That sounds disgusting but I’m being sincere. Did I write some bullshit down here? Because I wrote in the last post, “be kind to yourself”. Do that before you attempt any other method for being happy (religion, money, yoga, love, etc). You can’t attempt any path to happiness if the […]

“You have to come get me,” she called me at 2 in the morning and was crying. “I’m at a bar, I’m drunk, and I’m going to go home with the next stranger, male or female, who tries to pick me up.” She was desperately unhappy. She was beautiful, had millions of dollars due to […]

If you haven’t heard, today is Valentine’s Day, the worst holiday known to mankind except for maybe Father’s Day, which is 100% commercial and has no historical backdrop. Valentine’s Day has some history although not really. It’s named after a St. Valentine, although we don’t know which one (there were three) and we don’t know […]

I know exactly what I’m going to do. Don’t tell anyone. I’m going to  put on a ski mask, find where they live in Brooklyn, show up at their door when they leave for work about six in the morning, and hit them with a baseball bat.  I might not even wear a ski mask. […]

I haven’t written in 24 hours. I feel sick now. Like my brain is empty. Please, Mr. Blank Paper on my screen (or maybe you are female and refusing to talk to me) just sculpt out some words so that I can say the writer’s block is over and I can hit “Save Draft” and […]

We were about to convince a bunch of Arab sheikhs that their investment in our VC fund was still worth something and maybe they should invest more. It was 2001. About a few months before our biggest investor shut us down. Until then there was still a vague hope that we were good at what […]