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I'm 40 right now and just started my first real career-type job this year. At 39 I was still a co-op student. It's honestly fine. The world is changing and it's way more common for…

>Carbon in our souls I think it might be an allusion to alchemy. Basically, the alchemists believed that ash (what was left after burning something) was the soul of all things...An…

"Ticketmastered" is one heck of a verb! It honestly strikes fear into my heart to think what else might soon be "ticketmastered" in the future. Hopefully it at least affords opport…

>taking fixed-window averages and comparing them to one another is effectively useless Is it really that simple? I'll fully admit that most of my understanding of the stock market …

>Their methods are many, varied and wackily named. A “death cross” is when a short-term moving average of an asset’s price falls below a long-term moving average. I think the autho…

Yes, I had to move for a job this year and the rent is basically unsustainable. I went from paying $500 a month to paying $1500 a month. After taxes, that's half my pay. I know tha…

This might be true, and I'll admit that I didn't read the article, but I would add that not everything can be explained by economic efficiency. For example: poems--a really bad use…

This must be one of the most awful sentences I've ever read. There is so much stink crammed into so few words, that I'm actually slightly in awe of how terrible it is. There are so…

>This may be the beginning of the end for what Silicon Valley calls "tech" There's something about the way you phrased this that just made me just realize there's a very real possi…

I agree. I find the name off-putting too, and they have also embossed the product with name in big bold letters. If they like it, more power to them, but I would honestly be hesita…

I would say record yourself speaking and then listen back to it. It will take a little bit of time to get over the discomfort of it, but you'll be happy you did once you get used t…

I hope the people implementing all these policies and technologies are seriously weighing the consequences of their actions. I suspect that they are not.

I would suggest keeping a good relationship with your current employer and network of business contacts. If you do end up losing your job, a recession is a great time to go back to…

This is a great idea that I had never thought of. Something that might help, if it does actually make a person feel awkward, is to use a numeric code. That way, you could be commer…

You know it's kind of funny, because many former Olympic dream teams have famously fallen short from time to time. The most noteworthy is the American basketball team losing early …

Check out The Kybalion, and also Prometheus Rising.

I honestly think there are a lot of people that need some level of human interaction to function properly, and those are likely the people pushing for hybrid or back to office. Kee…

One possible explanation is that he might be experiencing depression. It's probably not the first thing you would think of when you see scattered writing, but since it's an article…

There are a lot of things. I'm actually searching out more and more refined pathways to joy each day. One specific thing that has been filling me with joy at the moment is listenin…

I have a similar freakish ability, but mine has to do with writing. I can basically ~see~ approximately three pages of prose in my mind's eye while writing. It only works under cer…

You know what it might be: maybe the person is a niche marketer and is going to pretend to be multiple people to sell their product to the newsletter's audience. That happens all t…

I personally found Facebook hard to quit, but not entirely impossible. I would compare it to giving up cigarettes: not easy, but I got through it. I am coming to terms with the fac…

I wish more people, especially tech CEOs, could understand the incredible sacrifice of time, money, and energy it takes to make an album people actually enjoy. Everything you liste…