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First of all, let me say that I loved writing this.
See, when I was in college, I would walk by the Quad and see a poster for some new book-exchange service literally every week. “SCREW THE BOOKSTORE!!!” it would say. “TRADE YOUR USED BOOKS WITH THIS NEW SERVICE!” The idea is that bookstores charge too [...]
I want to be clear about something: I’m sincerely interested in doing less and less work as I go through my life. That’s why I’m always puzzled when I meet people on a career path that will have them working more, not less. That’s like being a real-life Mario Brother, where every progressive level you [...]
The financially smart decision isn’t always the right one. When I say this, it usually irritates engineers and economists, who love to believe that we all behave rationally. This just makes me even more gleeful, resulting in an upward spiral of doom. Seriously, I love messing with them.
Anyway, my friend told me an interesting [...]
In college, I drove a rickety-ass minivan that my parents let me use. Here’s how bad it was: It shook so badly that when I drove it on the freeway, I always drove in the right lane so that when it broke down–not if–I could simply pull over gracefully. When I took it to get [...]
I went to school with some of the smartest people in the world–people whose knowledge and insight would stun you regularly–but you wouldn’t always know it. Maybe it was the guy who didn’t know how to pump his own gas, or the girl whose monotone voice and paragraph-long questions made me want to jump off [...]
If you’re below the age of 125, you have heard people saying one of more of these phrases about losing weight:
Don’t eat before you go to bed because fat doesn’t burn as efficiently
If you cut your carb intake and raise your protein level, you can lose lots of weight quickly
If you eat fruit in the [...]
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