Did you never understand the "why did the chicken cross the road" joke?
Published: Thu, 09/20/18
I always thought it was stupid.I now realize: here, right before our eyes, was the first of what later became known as anti-jokes.So here, if you've…
The Happy Earner
I send out value-packed emails about earning income online, which I've been doing with great success since 2010. I would have saved myself a lot of agony and frustration if I'd had the information people on this email list receive every day!
try not to laugh at this Harvard course description
Published: Wed, 09/19/18
The professor is on leave this year, so you'll have to wait until ne t year to take "Cacaphonies: Toward an E cremental Poetics."Here is the…
The terrible truth about why I've been avoiding video this week
Published: Wed, 09/19/18
It's because I look like hell.I'm finally getting over it, but I've been sick this week, and I was afraid a video would scare people away.Normally I'd…
Sesame Street official statement on whether Bert and Ernie are gay
Published: Tue, 09/18/18
It truly has come to this.Mark Saltzman, one of the show's writers, has just revealed that he imagined the duo as a gay couple, modeled more or less…
I'm sick and on the couch. Robots don't get sick. I still don't fear them
Published: Tue, 09/18/18
Robots don't get sick, which is another reason we're supposed to fear them.I, meanwhile, am spending yet another day on the couch with whatever it is…
I'm sick as a dog, and sending you this note with my limited strength
Published: Mon, 09/17/18
I couldn't even record an episode of my podcast today. Felt awful, and absolutely e hausted.So let me be quick.On Thursday there's an important…
"Look at what the majority of people are doing, and do the exact opposite"
Published: Mon, 09/17/18
I enjoy following the dictum of Earl Nightingale:"Look at what the majority of people are doing, and do the e act opposite, and you’ll probably never…
Warning: your good and admirable goal ends in excruciating awfulness
Published: Fri, 09/14/18
Here's the good and admirable thing:You've thought about publishing a book, particularly for the Kindle.Maybe you've even finished writing it.And then…
So you hate writing and would loathe blogging? I haven't forgotten you
Published: Thu, 09/13/18
"Start a blog," people tell you."You can monetize a blog!" people tell you. (If you know what you're doing, you certainly can.)Just one problem:You'd…
The book I never wrote, and why I never wrote it
Published: Wed, 09/12/18
I think I'm going to make a serious change.You probably know about opportunity cost: the cost of doing A is not being able to do B.All kinds of A are…