What seems most apparent when comparing ourselves to people of "the old days"

is that they only fought for one thing.

Their lives.


This is the trick that every modern generation plays on themselves.

Thinking they are not fighting for their lives.

When with every single breath we are.


Time is not running out.

But time is...

When reversing the car, he knew he had to go slow.

He knew he had to keep his eyes on the rear view and side mirrors the entire time.

He might have a moment to look elsewhere, but as soon as two moments passed, he would need to make sure that he...

I would never test how a job candidate operates under pressure.

Pressure is something you rise up to. Not something you employ for.

Leaders handle pressure. They are the pressure valve that prevents the general  employee from having to deal with the  pressure  

You can't hire for that. An employee that...

I found 200WordsADay - 200WAD - on the twilight of 2018 .

One of the first things I noticed upon entering the site was the founder's profile picture: I thought he looked like such a super hero in that picture. It was an illustration of his face gleaming off into the...

You would check  Twitter where other likeminded folks would be complaining about the current  apoclypse . The narrative had done a 180 since last week. Back then all the educated office workers -- many of them not in the office anymore -- were proclaiming the tragedy of the zombies. How...

Man is fragile . A 4mm stone can cause a grown man to cry when found in his kidneys .

Yet man is resilient. Tell a man he will have to piss out the stone and he won't just go off himself. He'll stick around and go through the pain.

Whenever I...

The thing about a consultancy is that it's impossible to assign a monetary value. Its value comes not from any asset owned, but rather the contracts it services. Skills + relationships. Hard to put a dollar value on that.

Startups with products can be given a net value some multiple of...

The words rung into the air suddenly. It frightened her. She was scared to ask the man singing beside her. In a past life the  fear would've drove her against it. She would instead live her entire  life not knowing the answer to the question.

But today things were different. She...

Chuck was about to jack off, but then the  porn wasn't so interesting. He thought about all the porn he had watched his whole life and wondered why he kept watching the new stuff. Couldn't he simply jack off to the porn that he once jacked off to? What was...

A smoker never gets bored. There's always something to smoke.

This is their curse, because everything is irritable without it.

smoking . No matter what's happening in the world, if enough time's passed since the last  cigarette you can call a smoke break and take time away from "important matters". Doesn't...