Peter McGraw

Researched comedy. Now the Solo Economy. | Host of Solo | Bachelor. Behavioral economist. Boxing in Bogotá.

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Big day! My talk "Stop telling single people to get married." is on @TEDTalks.

https://t.co/fA6K72a05G

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@YrWelcomeMatt Haha. Savage

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@hackernews I’ll give you a chance. Just don’t be like Wired.

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@fightersretreat @DarwynsTheory @WestsideLAGuy 💯

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@MikeDrucker Loved him in Clue

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

When I was a kid, bedtime was 9 pm. I couldn't wait to be a grownup so I could go to bed anytime I wanted.

Turns out that is 9 pm.

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@azeem Need the denominator

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@MrChuckD Bravo

[wicked wigger of the west @Nick_Cerveza]

Gum technology has completely stagnated. No progression in decades. The flavor should last minimum 8 hours by now. Ludicrous

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@zammit_marc Fight club.

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@readswithravi

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No. There is product, and everything else is go-to-market.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Is the term "sales" being replaced by "GTM"? Seems kind of bogus frankly.

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To your continued survival.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

After work, I was invited for a beer. The glasses went up, everyone said "Cheers," and I, translating an old habit directly, said, "To your continued survival."

The table went quiet.

Then Big Dan said, "That's the best toast I've ever heard," and made everyone do it again properly.

We toasted to our continued survival. Twice, because Walsh came back from the bathroom and demanded to be included.

It is now the official toast of a bar I had been to once. The night bartender taught it to the day bartender.

Last week I walked in and a table of strangers raised their glasses and said it to each other. They do not know me. They do not know it is a translation error.

They have survived another week, and they are pleased about it together.

The toast needed to exist. America just found it lying around in my bad English.

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@dailycamera Legend

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@CoachDanCole_ Good luck.

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Current favorite x account. 💪

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I joined an American gym. I carried the smallest weights to a corner and lifted them with correct, ceremonial form.

A man the size of a vending machine nodded at me and said, "Light day? Respect."

It was not a light day. It was my entire strength. He chose the interpretation that protected my honor, and he chose it instantly. I have received less mercy from diplomats.

A week later, a stranger asked me to spot him. I did not know the word. He explained: stand over me, and save my life if the bar wins.

A stranger. Placing his breathing privileges under my supervision. Based on nothing. I have guarded castle gates with less seriousness than I guarded that man's bench press.

Then it was my turn, and I met the greatest lie in America.

The bar was too heavy. It sank toward my chest. Instantly there were hands on it, lifting it as if it were empty, while their owner screamed, "ALL YOU, BIG MAN. THAT'S ALL YOU."

It was not all me. It was almost none me. He carried the entire bar with two fingers while insisting, loudly, that I was achieving this alone.

Everyone knows it is a lie. It is also the truest thing anyone has said to me in this country. The whole gym is held up by it, the same way the bar was.

Last month I failed a lift, loudly. The clang brought three men jogging over like lifeguards. Nobody laughed. The vending machine helped me up and said, "We've all been under that bar."

We. All. Under the bar. It is apparently a nation.

They have taught me the nod. I am now authorized to nod at strangers who are suffering voluntarily at six in the morning.

Monday. Six a.m. They leave me the good bench.

All you, they will say.

It will not be. That is the joke everyone is in on, and no one will ever say out loud.

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@Dexerto Haha

[Max Lugavere @maxlugavere]

Two things that are true at the same time: AI writing is terrible, and it’s astonishingly useful for writers.

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Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

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@mattruby Haha

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