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...

I remember Ross never working out, but he was stronger than all of us. No matter how much  protein we ate or how much meat we packed on our bones by hitting the gym, there was no way you could compare to his nature.

It's just like how an out of...

I didn't drink  coffee until that  summer KJ and I became best friends. My entrance was not the usual morning pick-me-up.

Instead KJ and I, being underage and not knowing anyone who would buy booze for us, looked for some kind of social stimulation that resembled a bar. We really wished...

When I was 16 my best friend was an 18 year old who lived two school districts away from me. Until that summer I had never thought it possible to have a best friend that was two years older. There had been childhood fantasies where I'd look up to someone...

The company had a policy around employees smoking weed . It was allowed so long as nobody proved that they were smoking it on the job. The company didn't find that it inhibited their employees at all given that their tasks were so simple. Plus it made hiring easier. Word...

Walter met his first girlfriend after moving to Westcity because of his habit of taking afternoon walks. No matter how hot it got he vowed to take a walk during the afternoon when his brain would be fried anyhow. No point in trying to pull of any deep work during...