In the beginning of the internet the world wide web was brimming with optimism due to a recency bias

Whereas Stanford decided to make its mascot a tree my wife is a decision tree and I am her mascot even though I couldn’t get into S…

Never get greedy Always cut your losses And remember that it’s better to be lucky than good and it’s bad luck to be so good th…

I remember saying to myself Okay, this is it the moment of truths

There is the rule of law Which is self-explanatory Or there is the law of rule Which will always be explained to…

We hit it off: she’d declawed her cats and I’d plucked my cacti’s needles

John F. Kennedy’s hair was so lus… for the most part men never wore hats again At first we must have looked oddly like tub…

I don’t meet many people with a mind like a steel trap Instead, the really smart people tend to have minds like trawling n… to catch the really big fish

Losing what you never had is only possible when you look for it exactly where it never was

You’ll know whether you’re there to make things better or to make yourself feel better by how you react when you’re told you can do better

And just like that the safety of ironic distance gave way to the false intimacy of over-proximi…

Hey mister, that Deep Blue is some deep shit I know, that’s why we’re

You can’t break the chain of events but you can break the chain of custody for the chain of events

We don’t understand our childhoods so we spend our adult lives reenacting them in the hope that an outside observer

No one seems to see (least of all me) that being all you can be isn’t about clutching superiority– it’s for abjuring mediocrity