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Perks of being a “prole”
“Not cool. Jokes about forking repo’s in a sexual way and ‘big’ dongles. Right behind me.” - Adria Richards While the world was crucifying Pax Dixon one of my coworkers was making a double entendre...
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Macchiato blues
“I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and lonely. But with all of that also came a real strong feeling of independence.” - Henry Rollins It’s Sunday afternoon. I sit alone at a coffee shop reading...
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Philosophia
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” - Plato Over the past week I struggled with reading through Plato’s The Trial and Death of Socrates. Here...
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You are special
“Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails.” - Robert Half According to science all my peers erroneously believe themselves to be...
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Snowball
“Left town in a coach came back in a jet.” - The Weeknd, I’m Good I keep a notebook filled with nothing but numbers. Weights moved, money earned, money spent, protein consumed, hours slept, and site...
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A letter from September 22nd, 2013
“When is now; when was then?” - Bill Nye About 15 minutes from writing this post, I discovered a website called FutureMe. The whole idea behind this site is that you can write a letter that gets...
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The “it” place
“Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.” - Reid Hoffman It’s 1913, you live in a rural town. Barnes & Noble have yet to be invented. As such, books are expensive and something of a rarity....
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“Who ever heard of a rich human resources manager?” - Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich My job isn’t hard, I get along with all my coworkers, and my boss is nice. Despite all these things I still hate...
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The party guy
“Never miss a party…good for the nerves–like celery.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald Most of the kids in my age range assume that I’m living it up. I constantly get told “f*ck school! You just get to do...
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Graduation/Relaxation
“In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding...
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How many words do you write a day?
“There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.” - James Michener How many words do you write a day? Every time I travel abroad I pack one huge book. In Belize I read about the history of...
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Mandatory Fun
“Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get...
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Andrew Carnegie Dictum
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” - Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie Dictum Over the winter I watched a movie called The Men Who Built America. While...
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Lima Travel Guide: Insider Advice from Expats in Peru
“I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn’t figure out how...
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Reasons to live in America
“America sucks, I’m leaving!” - Generic threat Reasons to live in America America gets a lot of hate throughout the word. Islamic extremists threaten to blow it up and complainers on the Internet like...
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5 lessons from The Boron Letters
“Even if you are not interested in making a lot of money really really fast, what you are about to read will change your life forever.” - Bond Boron 5 lessons from The Boron Letters Some time ago I...
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What living in Miraflores is like
“A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson What living in Miraflores is like Last week I moved to Miraflores, which is a neighborhood in Peru. Although I was pretty excited for...
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Should you listen to James Altucher? (and 5 things that dropping out of...
“When I was 19 I won some money in a chess tournament. So instead of using that money for my college tuition I decided to drop out of college and buy a car. I bought a used 1982 Honda Accord. I drove...
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Everything is a slog
“Man, you gotta sweat or you won’t get far.” - Victor Pride Everything is a slog People act surprised when they find out that I don’t do tourist stuff every single day. “You moved to another country...
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How the worst pizza in the universe made one man rich
“Being able to sell with words alone, regardless of where you’re physically located, is the most powerful skill you can have.” - The 5 P Approach to Copy that Crushes It How the worst pizza in the...
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