As I sat in bumper to bumper traffic this morning. Living in Kingston getting up at 5:30 and still looking like I'm about to be late for work, I question my decisions in life that led me here.
Jetour, the full story of the Chinese brand most people can't name.
How it took on Japan on Dubai's roads.
The parts it buys instead of builds.
The price gap the legacy brands left open.
The trust play: one distributor, a 10-year engine warranty.
I don’t think we can ignore governments all over the world suddenly telling their citizens to stockpile food and water. Japan is the most recent. What do they think is about to happen?
i turned someone down after one dinner because they talked about their lease for twenty minutes. two months later i watched them argue with a pub trivia host about whether a lake can be a sea, and win, and i thought about it the whole drive home
by then they were already seeing someone from their trivia team
their landlord's name was gary. i still know that for some reason
"no spark" after one dinner is the most overrated verdict in dating and i'm pretty sure it's why half of you are still single at 31. two strangers at a wine bar for 90 minutes, both doing their cleanest version, one of them asking "so what do you do for fun" while the other checks if the server is coming back. then everybody drives home and decides whether they felt something. nobody is hot while being interviewed. you wouldn't have a crush on your favorite coworker either if you'd met them in a performance review
my friend derek is the most boring man alive over dinner. he orders the chicken and asks about your commute. put him in charge of a rec league flag football game and people in the stands start asking who he is
most couples i know "met through friends" and i used to think that meant their friends had good taste. mostly it means they saw each other at a bonfire or while helping somebody move a couch, and one of them was carrying the heavy end
women say "no spark" a lot when what they mean is he didn't act confident enough at them for an hour and a half. guys have their own version, "not my type," which usually means she didn't look exactly like photo one under restaurant lighting
if the first date was "fine," you owe them a second one where you're actually doing something. bowling counts
and if you ever said "no spark" and changed your mind later, what did it
This is why your social life has to include a lot of low-stakes, mixed-gender, mixed-age interactions. Including at least one older couple who can say to clueless men "she's into you, dummy, go for it" and to women "stop saying that, you're scaring the men off"