Everyone's talking about ebooks and how they're the path to freedom and the way to becoming, as Tim Denning calls them, "the new rich." I've wanted to be a lot of things over the years. I wanted to be a comedian, a firefighter, a Green Beret, a YouTube star, an…

Let’s look at this through rose-colored glasses for a change. Many among us think that being single in our 40s is a death sentence. What’s the point? We’re old. Who would want us now? I don’t want to hear that kind of talk. Not today. No, today we’ll focus on…

A deranged leaf floating down a river. The Tao is an ancient philosophy that encourages action through non-action—letting life happen to you rather than trying to influence the outcome. While the Joker isn’t quite the kind of guy who sits around letting things happen, aspects of his character embody the…

2023. It’s really here. As a child watching 90’s movies with my father, whenever a story opened up in the year 2023, it was always a dystopian hellscape filled with mutant prostitutes and shifty robots peddling organs to aliens on a rainy city street. Neon lights reflect off the wet…

It’s not the hellscape you might imagine. I don’t have many single friends left. I have one who travels around Asia playing golf and lamenting his life decisions with long, somber texts about how he’ll die an old man, filled with regret. I have another who started a successful company…

It’s such sweet sorrow… To many, dating in your 40s is a fate worse than death. I used to think that way. I used to be of the mind that I’d rather place jumper cables firmly to my netherregions than face the prospect of another first date. But now that…

Suffering, attachment, and baseball analogies. I remember being in high school and having my heart broken at least once a week. …

It’s easy! Since 1938, the Finnish government has provided expectant mothers with a “baby box.” It’s exactly what it sounds like; a cardboard box featuring a cozy little baby mattress and all the supplies a mother would need to care for her newborn. …

Short answer, yes. Long answer…maybe. I’ve sounded the alarm bells for some time on Twitter about the ascent of the AI content creation machine. Many thought I was a crackpot and still believed in the human dominance of the written word. But as each day passes, more and more content…