How to tell if you've found your "thing"
- You instantly absorb anything you read on the subject
- You stay up late working on it (without effort)
- You can perform better on it at 60% than others at 100%
- It doesn't drain you, but rather gives you energy
- You end up doing it without being prompted
Play to you, work to others. Don't waste your time dedicating yourself to something you're bad at. Work hard at games you're uniquely suited to win. You can and should take every unfair advantage you have access to
Spent 64 cents on a prediction that Detroit wins the basketball game. Prediction moved up and I cashed it out for 73 cents. Made 14% return in a couple hours (9 cents)
Selfies made celebrity interactions too easy.
As a kid, I’d find celeb/athelete addresses, write insanely detailed letters, then wait 3-9 months for an autograph.
You’d RUN to the mailbox every day.
Some days it was Al Pacino,
Some days Bozo the Clown.
The last days of analog
I don't fully buy the idea that living in an age of uncertainty is what's driving the decline in fertility.
The Baby Boom took place when your kids had to practice duck-and-cover drills at school to prepare for what was seen as the inevitable nuclear apocalypse.
When nostalgia is really well designed you get this.
That’s the best design.
This is what pro sports apparel needs more of instead of just constant re-releases.
“Informal essays are, by and large, silly and insubstantial things”
-Steven King, On Writing
As an aspiring informal essayist, this quote from Steven King lives rent free in my head