I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because h...
I read once that you need two things to be happy. Any two of health, money and love. You can cover the absence of one with the other two. I drew comfort from this idea while I was fully bodied, employ...
Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it...
Everyone's broken, one way or another.
Attention words. A single word wasn't enough. Not even for a particular segment. The brain had defenses, filters evolved over millions of years to protect against manipulation. The first was perceptio...
Every story written is marks upon a pageThe same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.
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We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.
Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was
Body parts telegraphed complaints from faraway places.
With Lola, everything was solvable. She was my independent variable.
To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.
These tests, though, were making her feel like a moron.
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
The newspapers said nobody made it out alive.Surely you didn't trust them.
The fact was, if you paid attention, people tried to persuade each other all the time. It was all they did.
I’m not a privacy nut, and I don’t care that much if these organizations want to know where I go and what I buy. But what bothers me is how HARD they’re all working for that data, how much money they’...
Did you tell me to loosen up? He wiggled the wrench onto the third nut. Is that funny for some reason? When I experience base physiological needs for food, water, air, sleep, and sex, I follow protoco...
America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, where the Government isn’t privatized, they still have to pay tax and do whatever the Governm...