Category: random
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Lottery
The pot was $40 million or something yesterday. So for the first time ever, I bought a lottery ticket. It actually wasn’t for me, it was for a friend. Yeah I know what you’re thinking, but it’s true. The awkwardness you have when you’re first buying a lottery ticket is akin to when you first […]
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Counter
The guy comes by yesterday to check out our kitchen and what he can do with it. Right away he says: “you weren’t here the last time.” He’s right; my girlfriend was here. Now I am. But the guy has a point. He’s confused now because he doesn’t know who the decision maker is. He […]
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Destination
Fact is, most people don’t really know where they’re going. It seems like the tools for figuring it out are everywhere. You can buy books that will give you an idea of direction. But you can read them all and still have no idea. All they do is give you a map to where they’ve […]
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I made this with a friend
It feels kind of like a Nike ad to me.
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Homework. III.
A long time ago, more than a lifetime ago, when I had no real career and nothing but dreams in life, I wanted to be an artist. I had joined art school at the age of around 19 in order to one thing– a very specific thing. I wanted to become a metal sculptor. I […]
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A Short, Incomplete List of the Things I’ve Done Wrong
1. I spent 6 years in call centres, from about 19 to 25, doing nothing with my life. Looked like shit, felt like shit. No achievements or lasting happiness whatsoever. 2. I believed that I could do everything I wanted alone, without a support structure. I believed in willpower instead of putting systems in place […]
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Welcome back.
Hi, and welcome back to regular writing. 🙂 I just spent probably three months finishing up my third book with Portfolio/Penguin. It was damn stressful but I’m glad we pushed ourselves. It’ll be out in October. I’ve pretty much figured out that I can’t write several things at once, at least while caring about all […]
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A Question About Staircases
Imagine that you were running a race on one of three escalators. Which race would you rather be in? 1. An escalator that is helping you up. 2. A broken one that is not moving at all. 3. An escalator that is going down while you head up, making it harder to reach the top. […]
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Lessons I Learned Reading Over 200 Books
I recently realized that I’d been reading a book every week now for about 5 years straight. It kind of made me wonder: what did I really learn? Am I smarter than I used to be? I started to wonder, and this is what happened. 140 characters per book, for 200 books… 200 things you […]
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A Short Contest
Hey, happy Monday. I have a cool idea and, if you have a minute, I’d love your help. I’m looking for the best quotes from the entirety of this blog for an experiment I’m going to try out. My theory is, I can take them, present them in a cool and unique way, and have […]