Yes! One time I was taking a group meditation class from a Buddhist nun in a basement in Hoboken, NJ and she said this same idea as the group meditated quietly. “If someone says something ugly to you, choose to not get angry as it is your anger and your choice.” From the back someone responded (since we were in…

This is great advice! My wife is currently going through this as an artist, and has carved out 6-7am to work on her painting, every day.  It sucks to get up early all the time, and it means she’s either going to bed early or sleep deprived, but it’s working and she loves it.

How lucky we were to have someone who dedicated his whole life to educating children not for fame, or for money or for ego. He just wanted to spread knowledge and security as far as he could.

I read this article while procrastinating for my 1:30 meeting. I will try and stuff them all in one day in the future!

They do! Every year! But why just charge the consumer more for service, when you can also charge them more for content you didn’t create? and why just charge the consumer when you can also charge the content creators?

What happens next?!? Innovation!! As in, innovating ways to make you pay more for phone, video, and data.

I’m curious as to why you think this law was passed? I think it is an attempt to get less people to vote, consistent with our history of passing laws to limit voting.

Also, browser fingerprinting -. https://panopticlick.eff.org

These are all great tips and the 5% really is how you hold on to the last 5% of your sanity with kids and work. Regardless of your strategy though it is a beatdown. Setting aside time from work so you can work on your little bundle of joy/monster/monster of joy. Sometimes it’s a rewarding beatdown.

This is an awesome slide show. So much info, and really interesting insight into how the internet landscape is developing, and really how the world is developing.

Agreed, this is the innovation we are paying for! But just to set the record straight we are way overpaying. Every major US drug company spends more on Marketing than R&D. We are paying for them to develop new drugs, but we are paying MORE for them to make money.

It really does work, but for modern day politics our perspectives are so far apart that “seeing things from the other side” feels like a betrayal in and of itself. If someone, from your perspective, is the devil incarnate, why would you ever entertain the idea that they might have something to teach you?

Staying healthy is work! In the US, maintaining a healthy weight, keeping in compliance with prescriptions, and securing your retirement are all part time jobs, but with huge penalties for not getting them done. Not everyone has the time, money, or skillset to address all 3, all the time. Unfortunately it just adds…

I just lost my Dad, and he had 800 people at his funeral. I got 800 condolences. There is definitely a right and a wrong way to go about it. Don’t ask me to validate your feelings, or come up with something you can help me with. Do listen attentively, without saying f’ing anything, if I have feelings to dump on…

This is awesome thank you!

Also alcohol, all drugs, eating too much, watching too much TV, spending too much time on your phone. spending too much time in the sun. The government should really step in.

They do their job well as a stand in for former drinkers who have the habits but no longer want to have the alcohol. I didn’t drink for 2017, and these shitty NA beers tasted fine after about 6 months of prohibition. Was nice to go through the motions of drinking a beer, even if the flavors are sub par and the buzz…

Paying attention to your phone is literally the easiest thing to do in any situation. This year my wife and I are trying leaving the phones on the entry table whenever we are home. If you want the phone you have to awkwardly stand in the doorway. In any given moment its frustrating to not have the option to retreat…

I’d love to see this exact same study re-run on humans and see if there is any difference. After all who can resist a well presented perineum?

As the article says as a lone wolf you really do have to adopt strategies to stay sane or you will end up in a sad lonely rut.