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I hate lunch. I hate going to lunch. I hate walking there, waiting, ordering, waiting, eating, paying, walking home. AJ Jacobs does also. So we came up with a solution. We have Skype lunches. I make a sandwich. Skype AJ, and we talk for a half hour while eating. Problem solved. Friendship on track. I […]

I took LSD and it ruined my life. This is not a writing tip. I was at graduate school in 1990 and I wanted to be a professor of Computer Science. I took one tab. Nothing was happening. Then suddenly we were lying on the floor and the ceiling was a maze. Then suddenly we were […]

A little girl was melting and screaming in agony. Her brother was trying to help her but couldn’t. I showed Josie a movie of Hiroshima when she was about five years old. Mistake. Josie woke up crying and hitting her pillow at three in the morning. I held her and talked her to sleep. Stupid […]

I hate writing about stocks. I used to outsource my happiness to the moves of the stock market. Day by day, minute by minute. I was miserable. But I’m seeing too much BS in the news so I just wanted to make some comments and point out things not typically in the news. This is […]

One time I was crying and my mom, quite reasonably wanting me to stop, threw a knife at me. It missed. She had poor aim. But it did stop me crying. It was a long time ago. I was 12. I don’t remember too many things from when I was 12. But I remember the […]

You can’t. It’s really hard to change. I’ve been an addict. When you’re addicted to a drug you can’t just say, “Well, this is bad for me. I’m going to stop.” Just give up now or be ready to go through a world of pain. Or… You can. But it’s really hard and few people […]

The average office worker works for two hours and 53 minutes in an eight-hour work day. About 180 minutes. On average they spend 65 minutes reading news websites. And another 44 minutes on social media. What do they do on social media? I guess they argue with people who are around the world also sitting […]