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Category Archives: Advice
It’s Always Incompetence
Whenever an event can be explained by either a vast conspiracy or simple incompetence, always assume incompetence. This is merely a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor, but it can save you just as much anguish.
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Tagged debate, Hanlon's Razor, Rationality, relationships
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Stalin Was Right
One death is a tragedy. One Million is a statistic. This fundamental deficiency in our humanity, as it has been called, is a weird phenomena. Why can we be so emotionally moved by an individual’s story, and yet so unmoved … Continue reading
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Tagged Customer Service, Groups, Humanity, Individual, Quote, Stalin
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Appreciation For Inaptitude
To the Gods: [Thanks] That I wasn’t more talented in rhetoric or poetry, or other areas. If I’d felt that I was making better progress I might never have given them up. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 1:17 You hear … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Aptitude, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Plans
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I Don’t Know
My friend Richard Feynman said, “I don’t know.” I heard him say it several times. He said it just like Harold, the mentally handicapped dishwasher I worked with when I was a young man making minimum wage at Famous Bill’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Honesty, I Don't Know, Question, Response, Truth
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Recognize When You’re Being An Asshole
There are some instances when I can’t stand wasting time. If someone’s driving 10 mph under the speed limit on a one lane road, I’m infuriated. If the one guy behind the counter at the post office is moving at … Continue reading
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Tagged Asshole, Betterment, Calm, Fury, Inconvenience, people, Rage, Zen
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Being Interesting Requires Being Interested
Seth Godin with another pithy post: Interesting and Interested . . . it helps to be both. These are the two ways you earn attention. If it’s so obvious, why is it so difficult? Everybody wants to be interesting, to … Continue reading
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Tagged Interested, Interestingness, Life, Seth Godin
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People Aren’t Racists, They’re Assholes
If I was black, I’m pretty sure I would think a huge section of our society was racist. If I was flamboyantly gay, I’m pretty sure I would think a huge section of our society was homophobic. If I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Carolla, Assholes, Homophobia, Humanity, Life, Racism, relationships, Xenophobia
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Don’t Judge Me, Bro
Judgment is a basic animal process. A dog’s brain instantly processes hundreds of data points of sounds, smells, visual cues and behavioral phenomena to determine which animals are friendly and which are not. The reactions are so quick because these … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Persuasion, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Brain, How We Decide, Impression, Johnah Lehrer, Logos, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Mind, Perception
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Your Preferences Don’t Matter, Your Customers’ Do
If you’ve ever tried to go to a restaurant’s website, there’s a 98% chance your experience was horrifically unpleasant. Usually, after the obligatory 10-30 second load time, there’s some weird music that starts playing, there’s obnoxious pictures or slideshows coming … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Desires, experience, Fulfill Needs, Restaurant, Web Page, Website
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Does Going Back To School Make Sense?
I get asked a lot if I think it’s a good idea for someone in the workplace to go to graduate school. The long answer is, maybe. Like any other decision, you’re going to have to decide what outcome you’re … Continue reading
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Tagged Back to School, Education, Self improvement is masturbation
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How To Reduce Stress And Look Like You Have Your Shit Together
If you’re reading this, you probably aren’t anxious or stressed out about where your next meal is going to come from, whether something or someone is going to harm you in the very near future, or where you’re going to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Carolla, Anxiety, Batching, Just Do It Now, Life, Stress, Together
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Why Meaningless Assignments Might Be Important
One of the aims of military boot camp is to break a person down so that they can be rebuilt in the way the military desires. This might sound insane, but it’s pretty important to know that your soldiers are … Continue reading
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Tagged Boot Camp, Break Down, Bruce Lee, Mental, Mind, Rebuild, Training
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Only Scientists Are Successful
I’ve touted the importance of awareness and curiosity before, and I stand my belief that without those two traits, your chance of success is basically at the lottery level. Every successful person I know possesses these traits in abundance. But, … Continue reading
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Tagged Science, Scientific Method, Scientist, Testing
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How To Seem Good At Everything: Stop Doing Stupid Shit
I read this post today, which does a great job of laying out one of the best pieces of advice I had ever been given: Back in college, one of my best friends was a prodigious chess player. He’d won … Continue reading
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Tagged Dumb, Habits, Mistakes, Stupid Shit
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