He liked the  library . Without it he would feel miserable everyday at lunch, sitting in an echo chamber of juvenile screaming.

Instead he got to play chess or surf the net while eating the sandwich his mom had packed. It was always the same. White turkey and yellow cheddar...

The best way to prevent yourself from doing something is to make it a  thing .

Make sure you pump yourself up about the thing, and go research how other people who are the best at the thing do the thing. This way you can focus all your energy on pointless...

His stomach sank. He thought once more, this trip is going terribly. He was sweating under his winter  coat . He took it off and the wind made him shiver. He looked around trying to spot his bike. Filled with determination, he started to walk the perimeter of the entire ...

He already felt it. He didn't want it to be true, but it still excited him. He couldn't focus on his work. He couldn't focus because he felt it was true.

After the mysterious lady left he had tried buckling down on his laptop and get back to answering emails and...

Often I'll be working on some problem, trying to learn something, and the day will come to its end. Sometimes I may consider staying up later and later to see if I can maybe reach a breakthrough. I've learned that it's not just about time spent on something. The raw...

Not only because of COVID but because of all the social implications that it brought.

The past two and a half years has finally taught me that I don't like alcohol it self that much.

In fact I think back to when i started liking drinking and it was always tied to...

Darjee sold his right kidney so that he his family could eat for two months. They were starving and this was the only way. His parents were too old and sick to sell their kidneys , and he would never allow his wife to do such a thing. His daughter,...

Because there were no markings on the package , he thought whether it could even be called a package at all.

After all, weren't packages things that were marked so they could leave some place and end up at some destination?

Normally he'd want to open something like this, but he knew...

Anytime I return to my hometown, I'll tune into the radio to check what's going on around those parts. It's about the only time I'll tolerate listening to ads . It makes me feel tuned in to what people there want. When I meet a friend for a  beer I'll...

The  Church of Twitter has had a busy week. The mobs either crowning Elon Musk as contemporary Martin Luther or another  billionaire buying his way into societal  infrastructure .

Independent of this, my friend remarked that if Facebook were to disappear tomorrow that there would be non net-negative impact to society....