> "I'd been sober for about 2 years when did something terrible, and I couldn't tell my girlfriend. I lied to her... and in order to live with myself I started drinking again." How could one secret make this dude forsake his entire sobriety?
Imagine non-runners subscribing to a newsletter for runners. They get running tips in their inbox. Their IG feed is covered with runners running everywhere. Their twitter feed is mostly threads from Olympic sprinters. These non-runners own running shoes, but they don't run. "Someday, I'
Have you ever had times in your life where you are completely set on a goal, and it's like the clouds part and every door opens? Your task seems impossible? It don't matter none, because you've got this energy that's utterly unstoppable,
I'm thinking of this tweet tonight. If you think about Steph's tweet honestly and fearlessly... do you approve of the difficult decisions you make? Or, like me, do you have some shaping up to do?
The new house across the street is listed for a little over a million USD, and tonight the contractors left the lights on, so I went and snooped. 👀 Everything was grey or black. Concrete floors. Small floor plan. Cabinets looked like IKEA. Felt really stark, like a bachelor who'
Tonight. On the couch, sharing a beautiful silence with a dear friend. Clock ticking past midnight. Getting anxious about my endless to-do list, of all the things I still haven't gotten done today. About everything I must accomplish tomorrow. Always living in the future. Always gripping a
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Jodi Ettenberg's [https://www.legalnomads.com/] travel blog inspired me to fall in love with food. Because of her, I traveled to Saigon for a month to eat hot soup in tiny alleys every morning, and to spend two months in Oaxaca savoring tlayudas and mole from the
A couple years ago, I asked the smartest person I know about building a site where you could buy shares of a person. "That makes no sense," he said, "I mean, if you want to buy a share in a person, just buy shares in the things
For Christmas, my middle sister gifted me a book called The Gift [https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Hafiz/dp/0140195815] by Hafiz, a Persian poet from the 1300s. Here's my favorite poem in the book: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS ONE IS MINE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone put You on a slave block And the
In December I asked myself, 'Why do I pick unavailable partners?' [https://www.madisontaskett.com/why-do-i-pick-shitty-partners/] and I swore I would never date someone avoidant ever again, no matter what it took. And for the last 3 months, I've worked roughly
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I've always been a dog person, 100%. Never cared for cats, like, at all. Then I bought a house that unexpectedly came with a bonus-cat. I named her Cinnamon. I fell in love. Now I'm a cat person. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...I bet there are countless parts of
Matthew McConaughey hosted a fundraiser to help with TX storm disaster relief, and DAMN his speech writer like... hi, marry me. It's brilliantly written and is a superb example of how to pitch someone, so I'm sharing the vid and breaking it down for you. Click