Difficult Conversations. Can we not have them? Can we just ignore them and let the consequences implode on our face in maybe say twenty years? Or should we continue to be passive-aggressive until we fall in love with each other? Anyway, here's the real question: who's your favorite Kardashian? We loath difficult conversations. Getting through … Continue reading I don’t know how to say this
No one's any good at starting a cult. It shouldn't be that hard. The mistake everyone makes is going too bizarre too soon. That works only for rappers. And cats.Most of us already have what it takes to join a cult. It's just that we are already in one and from there, watching something new … Continue reading How to start a cult
Let me tell you a story about storytelling. There was this century. Not some King. Not some random ass kid -- none of that bullshit. A whole period. Once upon a freakin century. It was rough: the catastrophic progress, the mental gentrification, and dial-up Internet. The A-listers of the time were fools, dictators, and psychopaths. … Continue reading Stories
Food. Security. Love. Respect. Wisdom. Sounds like a plan, right? According to psychologist Abe Maslow, that's us grouped by the things we need. He called this the hierarchy of needs. Maslow mummified human desires into a pyramid and concluded our journey starts at the bottom, with food - passes through three stages - and ends … Continue reading Wish list
Paranoia. Fear's illegitimate child. Or as celebrities call it, child. We are afraid of the unknown so we begin to fill the emptiness with the worst possibilities. Knowing, however frightening the facts, gives us comfort. But in order to know, we have replaced real fears with imaginary certainties. Les Misérables. On the outside, the paranoid … Continue reading How to get rid of fear
Fourteen years ago, Sir Ken Robinson took the TED stage to answer the question the greatest writers have grappled with: "How to get a book deal?" The answer: Give a great TED talk. Sir Ken has given the greatest TED talk by various interweb estimates and the question he really asked was this: Do schools … Continue reading What kills creativity?
I have cracked the habits to become a famous artist. Get drunk a lot. Make sure you are in a state of constant physical pain. Be wretchedly unhappy. Feel lonely to the bone. Bleed out your emotions, twice a day. Die. Someday after you are gone, your work will be discovered, introduced to the world … Continue reading How to waste time like a billionaire
No one's here.That doesn't scare me.It scares me to think someone may be.Every noise: the slow rustle, the distant cacophony, my own.Every movement: the bending light, the unstill water, my own.You there, unknown? It gives me a strange comfort to fear the unknown.It's my only companion.I let the noise stay:I am here. I am here.I … Continue reading Unknown & you
You know how everything's dual and stuff? Life's got death. Known's got unknown. Light's got darkness. I have this girlfriend. We see dualities cracking up all around us. For every sensitive human making the world better, there's a shithead making life difficult for everyone. For the angelic truth-teller, there's the lying devil. For an Einstein … Continue reading The middle path
What's a good point to run out of patience? Bad question. Who is a good point to run out of patience? There's a kind of question that brings Wren & Martin out of the closet. Our patience levels differ measurably by people. Kids are the undisputed champions of patience tests. You have this rage building … Continue reading Wait man — Or the tireless virtue of patience
