Seventy-nine percent of American adults are moderately or highly literate, per NCES, yet it takes time for a book to get there. I’ve heard many bestselling authors say that they freeze up when they compare their published books to their new book

This post is not an endorsement for the recreational use of magic mushrooms.

Banking in the game Monopoly is not like banking in real life.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary. - Nassim Taleb

It's safe to assume that your favorite musician—say, Aly or AJ, or some lesser third choice— makes more money than your dentist does.

Regardless of your approach, you typically end up back where you started. Even a foolproof strategy like not donating to Marjorie Taylor Greene eventually breaks down.

It’s summer 2015, and you reach into your pocket/purse and find a quarter. (Even non-weirdos have change in 2015.) A stranger walks by and bets you a dollar that it will be heads.

a person making $25,000 today is materially richer than John D. Rockefeller was in 1910

"It’s a superpower in modern times to be able to get off the ride of anger"

When I was a 20-year-old college student, procrastinating each research paper to the point of inflicting self-harm, I imagined myself at 27 being a mature adult who calmly accomplished the tasks I laid out before me.

This is how Jobs wanted it. It’s the idea of tight integration, or, to put it another way, Jobs’ obsession with control that endures long after his lifetime.

To Jobs, pleasure was more pleasurable when contrasted with extreme restraint.

We need politicians who recognize that this is a different era of humanity, and we need to revisit our pre-digital laws and norms.

Recently, as part of the “other” quadrant of my life (football, other, work, sleep), I read Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography.

“I don’t know what I want to do, what I would possibly be interested in, or even what I like. Come to think of it, I don’t really like anything.”

You know those days where you eat poorly, don’t exercise, and waste a few hours online to avoid getting up to drink water?

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.”

Flipping between Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and (god forbid) Tik Tok may temporarily save us from the terror of being alone with our thoughts, but it’s training us to chop our focus into 500 little pieces until our attention span atrophies completely.

I then spend my Saturdays reenacting the binge-eating orgies of the Ancient Romans by pre-gaming pizza and Cookout milkshakes with Five Guys’ bacon cheeseburger. 

For those of us fortunate enough to reside in a Western democratic country, we have the freedom to do anything we want at any time.

It’s impossible to know the future, so the secret of “visionaries” and “geniuses” is not foresight, but rather insight into what is currently possible.

YouTube and I have a love-hate relationship. I do not spend time on social media outside of a few Twitter binges, so YouTube has long been my vice, my kryptonite, yet my domain.

we all live in our own heads, and we have no concept of another person’s perception of reality. Waking up to our own biases through the process of an honest assessment is extremely difficult and is never-ending.

Smoking dangers are as widely known as any statistic in America, yet every teenager magically forgot them and started smoking the Juul because it was shaped like a USB and not a cigarette.

If there is a woebegone place of eternal fire, Hitler and Osama are currently sitting there and waiting to hear their confusing alphanumeric combinations called at the Tennessee DMV.

You wouldn’t describe yourself using a single adjective, so why would we describe something much bigger than our personalities by using a single explanation?

I therefore spent 16 to 18 hours per workday in my room or in the kitchen. Considering I only slept about 8 hours per night, this left me with 8-10 hours per day existing inside of my 14 by 14-foot box.

But please tell me how letting a student make $50 by selling autographs at the mall in order to have some spending money will ruin amateur athletics.

It’s truly amazing how infrequently many of us stop to think about where much of our food comes from.

I want to zoom out on the whole debate of modern morality and acknowledge that this debate is entirely based on the 2019 time bubble we live in.

The next generation is going to have to learn how to conquer a greater set of addictions. All the problems of olden times were scarcity. Now they’re all abundance

To avoid letting a college sports team affect my actual life, I became numb to it all, shrouding myself from sports misery, but shrouding myself from unadulterated sports joy—the best part of being a fan—in the process.

Summers and vacations are so great because they are either the reward for a school year completed without becoming a truant or a well-earned break from work. When I feel like I should be working harder than I am, vacation becomes significantly less joyous.

Mexican women live 5.7 years longer than men, per a CIA 2017 estimate. I mainly attribute this gap to men thinking “if I step out of the car, cross my arms, and show that I’m fed up with this long line, the line will move much faster.

If you are a sports fan, read along and appreciate these few moments of sport that some of us sacrificed depressing amounts of our lives to enjoy.

Some places are better described with pictures than words, so here’s a video of a 6’7, 260 pound dude doing pirouettes in the dance circle. A man of his size stands out here, but the pirouettes helped him blend right back in.

A great thing about Combis is that the passengers represent a cross-section of society. I see men and women in sharp business suits, my stupid reflection in the window, smiling children, and my personal favorite, fights about who is the rat.

Not every young lover is a student, so the grassy knolls on campus are not universally available to serve as The Love Boat. Thus, PDA is totally normal on sidewalks, park benches, and crowded subways.

Set a one-minute timer, look in the mirror, and clap continuously while remaining expressionless. I am sure that we were honoring someone or something very important, but for someone not privy to this information, it is a very long minute.

Imagine an offspring of a BuzzFeed article and an annual shareholders’ report from Microsoft, where the Microsoft report knows that a late-night YouTube rabbit hole secretly sired her child (my post)