Here’s a story about a time I spent a few hours in a holding cell
We all fail in life. Might as well embrace it in a blog, right? Continue Reading
Personal Stories
It’s perfectly fine to talk about dark issues at the holidays, you know?
If you read the last couple of things I wrote, you’d probably be like “WHOA! That dude is DEPRESSED!” In reality, I’m not. My life is definitely a lot better than it was in December of 2013 (detailed a little… Continue Reading
‘You don’t understand’ is the worst-ever way to begin a sentence
Stop removing people’s agency. Continue Reading
What’s the value of being selfish or obstinate?
If I had to sit down and make a list of the biggest changes between age 25 and age 34, I think I’d only be 3-4 items into the list before I arrived at “Meeting more selfish people, daily.” Now,… Continue Reading
Jeff Goins is two-faced and reaffirmed everything is just a sale
Maybe a week after Black Friday, one of my good friends sent me a text. He said that his “Promotions” tab on GMail had gotten 39 e-mails in the past 24 hours, mostly from charities, marketers, retailers, etc. He’s unemployed… Continue Reading
Once, I passed out on a subway and rode it end-to-end a few times. Here’s that story.
The night was March 20, 2009. I know that because it was the same night Cleveland State upset Wake Forest in the NCAA Tournament — more on that later in the post. If you take the story I’m about to tell… Continue Reading
What do you think is your biggest challenge of the next year or so?
It’s December. That means you get a lot of holiday spirit, but you also get a lot of resolutions and year-end lists and trend-spotting and 2015 predictions and the occasional cool article about why resolutions don’t stick. It’s a cycle,… Continue Reading
I wrote Mike Nichols a letter once. He wrote back. Kinda cool, no?
Mike Nichols passed away today, as you’ve probably heard. I don’t have a lot to contribute to this discourse because I’m not exactly a film buff or even a very good viewer of films — I saw most of the Twilight movies… Continue Reading