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Leaving Children Resourcefulness, Not Money

Improving Apology Norms

Grade Inflation

“The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles

Changing

Two Forms of Confidence

Acts of Service

Went to McDonald’s Today

Lindsey Vonn

Gaining Advice

Two Worlds

How to be Mindful (Ellen Langer)

Learn to be content and proud in this place

From Juror #2

Seems possible

Friction

Resist Equilibrium

THOU SHALL NOT DEMEAN THYSELF

Owning Your Own Desires

The softest thing in the world

“Fortune’s Formula” by William Poundstone

“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Guide” by Ted Chiang

Reznor on Rubin

Bing-bop-boom-boom-boom-bop-bam

A Second Kind of Courage

“The Almanack of Naval Ravikant” by Eric Jorgenson

2024: Things

Dragging Instead of Rushing

Dashes

The End

The Problem w/ “Self-Care”

Keep Wanting

Self-test

Two Types of Money Stress

re: Rats

No Regrets

The next time you see someone crying

Just Be Yourself

The Worst Form of Quitting

re: Addiction

How Not to Respond to Vulnerability

Changed Mind re: Medical Spending

Guitar Notes Vol. II

Learning for Compelling Reasons

Pay attention

Nervousness may in fact be

If you are primarily

Vow now

It’s Easier to Be Angry Than Sad Redux

re: Testosterone

re: Buying a Car

We will fight hardest

Being a Real Man

Saving Oneself

The Downside of Awareness

It’s a terrible thing

In Instead of Out

No, They are Worth That Much

Status or Joy?

Instead of looking for answers,

“Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game” by William Kennedy

2023: Things

The Gift of Friendship

Do you really need advice?

re: honesty redux

re: honesty

“Anything You Want” by Derek Sivers

“Feeling Good” by David Burns

Impressiveness and Interviews

“Attached” by Levine, Heller

The Friend Everyone Wants

Two Thoughts

Going to Therapy is Easy

Trauma Notes

Guitar Notes

Be Patient

Youth Equals Excitement

Mentorship Matters

EV Positive Rules

It’s easier to get over things

Personal Fearlessness

Four Levels of Thinking

Top-3 Ways to Make a Stranger Hate You

We Are All Hypocrites

“Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a Writer” by Dan Wakefield

Love simply means

“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin

“Life is Hard” by Kieran Setiya

Culture Creation

Remote work

2022: Things

Lines Offer Opportunities

“Talent” by Tyler Cowen

“E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Ficition” by David Foster Walllace

“Just be yourself”

An Expanding Understanding of “Buy Experience”

“Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch

See the Temptation

“The Beauty of Dusk” by Frank Bruni

“Midlife” by Kieran Setiya

How old do you think I am?

“Recursion” by Blake Crouch

“The Deep Places” by Ross Douthat

You Can Do It Yourself

How to Live in the Moment

Two Reliable Solutions to Life Problems

Sex Nervousness

Wanna be filled with love?

“Crossroads” by Jonathan Franzen

“Death’s End” by Cixin Liu

“The Dark Forest” by Cixin Liu

Why Marriage is Declining

“Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman

Don’t be scared of other people,

Breaking the Law

True, but is it useful?

Do Cool Stuff

People who say, “I know my worth,”

No Lie No Movie

So you’ve changed your mind

A Reason to Go Hard

7.3.2021 Rule GT6432

Let Me Eat in Food Deserts

I just have to tell someone

It’s Too Tempting

Right Things vs. Wrong Things

If it is true that a woman

How much of what you do

Changed Mind re: Socialism

Changed Mind re: Buying Things

Dear Cancel Culture, (Airbnb)

Anything that’s too false and too prescribed

Get Serious

One Thing at Once

2021: Two Lists of Two Things

2021: Things

Do you actually hate the thing?

Excel in Uncertainty

Having something to check

Is This Problem Solveable?

Dear “Cancel Culture,”

re: sex before marriage

Everything is political

Hitting Bottom

Stunned

I won’t send my unvaccinated friends your recent PSA

Having the comfort to say “it’s enough.”

If you think you don’t care about credit,

Unexpected Brilliance

It’s not social media that’s the problem,

How to Avoid Being a Sucker

It’s easy to say Twitter isn’t “real life” when

re: Housing

Perhaps it’s not scientific advances

Predictably Untrustworthy is Fine

Complicated “overlearning” vs. “underlearning”

Simple “overlearning” vs. “underlearning”

Eleven to 20: 2020

The Great Moral Failing of Our Time

Disqualification is About Multiplication, Not Subtraction

Far Too Detailed Review

Culture Creation

One to Ten: 2020

Boredom’s Texture

Cracking (redux)

Not a Champ

Was I Wrong?

Red Bull

Cracked

All Instapaper Notes

“The Glass Hotel” by Emily St. John Mandel

If objectifiying women is bad

What Is Right for Everyone Is Not Always Right for Anyone

2020: Things

2020: Two Lists of Two Things

Combating Nonsense

Not Going to Work

Measurement, Not Advice

Life in a Box

You don’t really understand someone

The Complete Definition of “Manhood,” “Toughness,” and a “Stiff Upper Lip”

If you feel compelled

Pride is an essential ingredient

Convenience Kills Creativity

Trust is experts has been lost

Batch Your Mind

“Trillion Dollar Coach” by Eric Schmidt

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

“Red Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Time to Definitely Go Easy on Yourself

4.15.20 Rule HJ8945 Part B

4.15.20 Rule HJ8945

Risk-Aversion Means Many Things

What would you do

ghosting

Bad Business

People want to be wanted …

The rise of therapy is a terrible development

Rebelling for the Right Reasons

Your Body is Stronger Than Your Mind

Either explicitly or implicitly,

“All he cares about is his re-election.”

“Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl

Divorce is Sadder Than Death

Courageous Wants

A Cost of Boredom

All-or-Nothing Bias

Yes, That’s Exactly What I’m Saying

Something about wants

Things Can Get Better

Not Actually Echo Chambers

Always say “yes” to

A significant part of “knowing thyself”

“The Odyssey” by Homer

The Right Way to Be Hypocritical

That’s an [insert bad person] talking point

Insert And

Painless Preferences

There comes a point

GET JACKED!

So you discover that your hero holds some stupid views

Prosaic Love

You might wanna check yourself

“Circe” by Madeline Miller

Doing What You Say – for Good Reason

RTPD’s Lebron James

Stop Giving Advice

Helping by Not Helping

Beating Children

Hard Varieties

See Clearly

C Minor in Various

Collected Thoughts re: Performance

Harder than fasting,

“Endurance” by Alfred Lansing

Respect Given

The thing about being different

“With all due respect”

Truth Monopolies Are Illusions

Signs in Spring Drops

There is something so pleasing

The award for the best marketing ever goes to

“Game Change” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

“The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion

“The Bone Clocks” by David Mitchell

Gratitude Is Easy (Redux)

The easiest road to “credibility” is to:

“I just don’t understand it,” almost always means,

Incredulity was fine (maybe)

Edge Closeness

It’s trivially easy

The complete (almost) worthlessness of “consistency” defenses

Lights ‘n’ Stuff

You don’t get to dismiss Donald Trump

I’m confused by your piece in “Time”

re: wearing a mask “so I don’t get others sick”

Personality Banked

No, tipping is not the answer

What if we miss the true power of Lent?

“Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Taleb

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston

Have I learned the lesson?

TV>Phone

Don’t Contact Exes

B-A-C-B, not B-A-B

Gratitude is Easy

We are hopeless to stop commenting

“Nothing to See Here” by Kevin Wilson

A great thing about a routine

Saving the Most Precious Resource

Special Place

Weakness’ Indefatigability

Step to It

Unlearning seems quite a bit more challenging than learning

You are always in or moving toward status quo

Never “let yourself be weak”

“As Lie Is to Grin” by Simeon Marsalis

“The Man Who Solved the Market” by Gregory Zuckerman

Everyone’s an Introvert

The Terrible

Declarations of privilege hide your

If your weakness provides you identity,

When someone reacts differently than you,

There are three types of people

My favorite feeling

“The Lessons of History” by Will and Ariel Durant

“although of course you end up becoming yourself” by David Lipsky

Not Satan, Actually

Find Love Because

Color Injections

“Medical Nemisis: The Expropriation of Health” by Ivan Illich

“Free Will” by Sam Harris

“Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen

“The Worthing Saga” by Orson Scott Card

Fort Greene Park in Thota Vaikuntam

Keto Walk in Surf

First Time Ever

“Dynamic Hedging” by Nassim Taleb

“High Output Management” by Andrew Grove

“An American Sickness” by Elisabeth Rosenthal

Action, Not Warm Thoughts

Anti Balance

“The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov

“Atomic Habits” by James Clear

Austin in Udnie

2019: Two Lists of Two Things

2019: Things

Oculus in Hunter

572 in Mononoke

“How to Live Longer and Feel Better” by Linus Pauling

“Priced Out” by Uwe Reinhardt

“What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20” by Tina Seeling

“On Writing Well” by William Zinsser

Future Grocery Store Encounters

Anti-advice

Cultural Capital Necessitates Exclusivity

“What You Do Is Who You Are” by Ben Horowitz

“The Epiphany Machine” by David Gerrard

“The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri

CA Wedding

Postcards

Miata Life in Unfiltered

“The Art of Learning” by Josh Waitzkin

“Only the Paranoid Survive” by Andrew S. Grove

Less vs. Fewer

“Raised in Captivity” by Chuck Klosterman

Not Vulnerable Vulnerable Monopoly

Strangers to Something More

Real?

Good Works, Not Faith

Countering Negativity With Grace

It’s clear to me

“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas

Pizza in Tears

The Elevated Acre in Wild

Giving Yourself Away

Am I Missing Something?

Freedom is Best

re: Nervousness

Not Worth Sending Vol. II

Not Worth Sending Vol. I

Do I Offend?

Smiling Through Pain

Meetings Don’t Have to Suck

Realizing Reality

How to Make More Money

LGA in Gecko

Seek First to Understand

Medicare for All

It’s Not That Men Don’t Know What Consent Is

Give to Get