Category: random
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Making a Million Bucks vs. Reaching a Million People
“Thank you my friend I have never met. […] I found your blog post “fuck the internet” on a day I was in a bad way. […] You know what the best part is? You didn’t even charge me a dime. Thank you so much. I could never have heard what you had to say if…
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How to be a good neighbour
The other day I was walking around my neighbourhood when a woman stopped me to ask for directions. “Where is de Courcelle street,” she asked. I pointed her in the right direction, and left with a spring in my step. There’s something great about being asked to do your civic duty, either giving people directions…
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Everything has been done. Give up now.
The list for what has never been done is very short. If you’re looking for something new before you even begin, you may as well abandon the quest. You will probably fail. Everyone has a voice now. Everyone has a camera, too. Every picture at every monument has been taken better by someone with better…
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You are nothing without effort
You are not born to live a long life. You are not born to succeed. You are born to go through puberty, reproduce, and die. Exerting effort for any other purpose than producing more children is a deviation from the natural order. It’s against your programming. Every push to improve yourself is an act of…
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The Complete Guide to Learning from Criminals
Whenever I’m in doubt and I don’t know where to turn, I turn to my idols, who never let me down: Brainiac, Two-Face, and Spongebob Squarepants. Ok, just kidding about Squarepants. The rest is real though. You know, until recently, if I were asked about my idols, I might have said someone like Marshall McLuhan,…
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Guts
My entire life– my whole existence–this is probably the thing I have been searching for. Guts are composed of two parts: GUTS and GUT. Both are equally important to the whole. GUT is where you should start. Gut requires you to have instinct, and listen to it. When you need to know what to do,…
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3 Lies You Should Believe (and Two You Should Not)
Read just the titles first— see if you can guess which are which. 🙂 I am unique I hate when people quote Fight Club— really I do. It’s one of those movies that’s good, but that people consider a religion when it was really just meant as entertainment (think Star Wars). But it’s true that…
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Advanced Tactics in Saying No
Saying no should be required learning for the 21st century. Why? Because we are soft. We have become so through a series of coercion methods that have been used on us since we were infants. So we are eased into it by our parents and our peer groups, and by a variety of authorities that…
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I am an Idea Machine
I have one purpose: to manufacture interesting, thought-provoking objects. I do this every day, diligently. If I succeed at this task, my owner will make more of me. If I fail, I will be dismantled, put in a warehouse, and replaced by a more effective machine. I take concepts from many different places. I digest them,…