John Cena hadn't always worked for Palintir . Before going around saving rare species of butterflies by breaking people's thumbs for Peter Thiel , he had once been a wrestler... the 'fake' kind of wrestling that is.

His finishing move was called the F.U as a phonetic acronym for "fuck you",...

The Dodge Ram didn't drive as smooth as the BMW . That's the sort of things you needed to do when you weren't in a big city like SF where you were surrounded by luxury cars everywhere so a sleek ride didn't attract any eyeballs.

They were out in Westcity ,...

Although making the right chess move gave him more satisfaction, pondering his next life move touched him in a different way He also liked the fact that he could ponder with his hands bunched together on his lap rather than having to hover his hand over the chessboard. Plus wasn't...

Generation Kill is what they call us. Guys like me. Grew up on shooters and junk food and sadistic jokes. But all those things aren't gonna make Generation Kill Generation Kill. There's gotta be one more element in the mix. One key missing ingredient in that list. 

In fact this...

Jeannie Hammond thought of the perfect way to spend her day off. And she did something else.

There was a doner truck that sold the best kebab in Berlin two corners away from his apartment. He went and got a loaf of bread from a Kaiser mart instead. 

She came home...

He crossed Lexington Ave to enter the design district with just a slight layer of sweat. Although he ran the second largest design + strategy agency in the city, he had chosen to work out of an office on the other side of Lexington, which technically put them within the...

On the 27th floor I saw a butterfly on the other side of my glass wall. I wondered how it could've ever gotten so high. I thought of a story of a window cleaner who was also a butterfly collector who had brought it with them up to work. And...

I hadn't spoken with him since college. I managed to graduate while he dropped out. This didn't seem to matter though, seeing as how he drove to our lunch in a slick Audi .

"Nice ride, am I right?"

"Yeah for sure."

Although we hadn't spoken in a decade we caught up real...

Our mutual friend had told us not to take more than a gram each. Brad was inclined to listen to the instructions, but I insisted based on my past experience, which I was pridefully bullish on, that an eighth was the minimum viable dose.

If you want to actually trip you...

I thought of the last time I felt pain.

It happened before I stuck myself into a 27th floor apartment on top of the downtown Whole Foods . I remember when I came in, telling myself I wouldn't leave until I felt better. And I haven't left since.

Inside this tower I...