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Games are like a super power. Games got me into college, got me into graduate school, got me my first job, raised me money for businesses. Taught me strategy, taught me how to handle adversity, taught me how to be deceptive. I was going to do a book: How to Win at Every Game. I […]

“I was six years old when I watched my dad executed on national TV”, Tim told me. “He was on death row.” I had given a talk the day before. During the talk I had described in detail the various ways one could kill themselves. I said, “If you point a gun at your head […]

EXTREME LISTENING I was at a dinner and someone told me, “if you are even thinking of a response while someone is talking, then you aren’t really listening.” This guy seemed smarter than me. And he seemed like a nice person. But this advice is not true. I thought about it a lot afterwards. For […]

All my life I wanted to write a book. At first I wrote four books that agents and publishers all rejected. I thought the hard part was getting a book accepted. Having someone like me. But this wasn’t the hard part at all. Anyone who is persistent will get that part done. These were the […]

The other day I woke up angry. I was remembering all of the people who I felt I did many good things for and now they don’t like me. I started to list all of the reasons they hate me. I started to think about arguments I would tell them to SHOW them how wrong […]

This life hack is so easy it’s trivial. I am almost embarrassed to share it because it’s so obvious. And yet so few people do it and this one technique has made me millions of dollars. That almost sounds scammy: “It’s made me millions of dollars”. What can I say about that? I was dead broke […]

I knew everyone’s secret crush and I wrote them down. I had a spiral bound notebook with that metal spiral that would poke out and scratch me whenever I carried it. It hurt. But that is the path a hard-core 11 year old journalist / spy must take. Every day I’d look around and if […]