Use transactional analysis and adult/parent/child to figure out yourself, your spouse, your family, your in-laws, etc. (Honestly.)

Eric Berne Adult Parent Child

Been going to therapy recently — because, I mean, why not? — and my therapist gave me two books to read/look at. One was called The Games People Play; it’s by Eric Berne and is fairly famous. (By some estimates,… Continue Reading

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Want better memory? Walk through less doors, watch more sitcoms

Sitcoms and Memory

I personally think I have a decent memory, even though I definitely smoked a shit ton of weed at the end of high school. (Sue me, I’m human.) But I also think having a better memory is pretty clutch in… Continue Reading

How wages for young people in the U.S. changed, 1980-2013

Young People Wages in U.S.

If you think modern-day San Francisco might someday go the way of Detroit, well, there’s some new evidence you should consider. (Here’s some more ill-fated logic on what might someday “doom” SF.) This comes from an article by way of… Continue Reading

Four ideas we get totally wrong about retirement

Stats about Retirement

The new cover of TIME Magazine — and you can argue over how relevant TIME Magazine is to the modern day, but it’s still a thing millions of people at least glance at on newsstands every week — is a… Continue Reading

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Some photos and thoughts on going to Paris/London

Ted Bauer Ximena Antunez Eiffel Tower

These are always the absolute worst types of posts to write — because you’re basically “me-forming,” and while I’m admittedly a hugely selfish prick of an individual, I also struggle with the basic notion that anyone in the world would give… Continue Reading

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What if Big Data actually makes decision-making slower?

Big Data and Decision Making

Here’s what we seem to know about the idea of “Big Data” at this point: More or less, it might be “the future.” Despite it being the “future,” we don’t seem to be teaching it enough yet for the next… Continue Reading

Demographic shifts: The population pyramid is over. What does that mean?

Population Pyramid

This is the first blog post I’ve written in about a week, because I was in Paris and London with my wife for the better part of the last seven days. (I’ll do a recap post on that a little… Continue Reading

Taking some time and going to Paris for a week or so

Eiffel Tower Ted Bauer Paris

I probably won’t blog that much for the next week (if at all) because my wife and I are going to Paris from tonight through next Monday. Cool thing about that, which I’ll try to say without sounding like a… Continue Reading