My 2023 holiday gift guide: Twelve of my favorite things, all of which make great holiday gifts!
10 Gifts to Make Your Holidays Extra Fun, Relaxing, and Delicious
Ten of my favorite things, all of which make great holiday gifts!
10 Gifts to Make Your Holidays Extra Fun, Relaxing, and Delicious
This blog post features ten of my favorite things, all of which make great holiday gifts.
Ten Lessons I Learned While Teaching Myself to Code
Note from the editor: The following is a guest post by Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99), a journalist who’s written about technology and science for two decades. Clive is a longtime contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Wired. In his guest post, Clive outlines the most important lessons he learned teaching …
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The 25 Most-Clicked Links from My Newsletter in 2018
What do roughly 1.5 million subscribers to my newsletter care about most? Or put another way, if they voted with clicks, what most caught their attention in 2018? The 25 items below are good candidates. They are the most-clicked links from my weekly “5-Bullet Friday” newsletter from January to December 2018. The most popular item received …
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How to Undertake the Artist's Journey
Note from the editor: The following is a guest post by Steven Pressfield (@spressfield), the best-selling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and The Lion’s Gate, as well as the cult classics on creativity, The War of Art, Turning Pro, and Do the Work. His Wednesday column on …
How to Say No When It Matters Most (or “Why I’m Taking a Long ‘Startup Vacation'”)
Saying yes to too much “cool” will bury you alive and render you a B-player, even if you have A-player skills. To develop your edge initially, you learn to set priorities; to maintain your edge, you need to defend against the priorities of others.
Inside an "Anything Goes" Sex Club
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.” – Mae West In this post, we’ll look two alternatives to monogamy: an “anything goes” sex club and living with three lovers at once. It’s very graphic, definitely not suitable for work (NSFW), and guaranteed to offend most of you. If you’re chomping at the …
An Unusual $100,000 Birthday Present (Plus: Free Round-Trip Anywhere in the World)
Turning 38-years young… and still not acting my age. (Photo: Sir Garrett Camp) 38! I’ll turn a glorious 38 soon. It’s going to be a great natal year–I can already feel it. Perhaps it will be good luck for you, too. In this post, I’m giving away a round-trip ticket anywhere in the world. But back …
Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
This happy-looking shot was taken in 1999, when I almost destroyed myself. In this post, I’m going to talk about suicide, and why I’m still on this planet. These are stories I’ve kept secret from my family, girlfriends, and closest friends for years. Recently, however, I had an experience that shook me — woke me up — …