Three Month Probation I’ve a friend who was a programmer a long time ago. He’s probably still a programmer today, but when he first got one of his first jobs, they told him that he had to go through a 90 day probationary period, which he was okay with. But after a couple of […]
Revenge Against Evil
Not So Fast I’ve a friend of a friend who started working at a very large very powerful company about 10 years ago. After about a year of working there he found out that this very large and very powerful company was engaged in very terrible activities. They were exploiting people. They were killing […]
Blackness Behind The Curtain
Depressed Friend I have a friend, she’s mid-late 30s, very attractive, very intelligent but for as long as I have known her she’s been always very unhappy and depressed. I always assumed it had something to do with the broken heart or perhaps a deceased child. Then when I finally sat down and talk […]
Brothels And Assassins
New Neighbors I noticed recently that I have some squatters living next door to me. I have mixed feelings about it. They’re very quiet, and I can tell they’re squatters because they burn candles at night. They don’t use any electricity. They’re not loud. I don’t feel in danger. I don’t ever see any […]
Kung Fu For The Brain
Networking Event The other night I was at this networking event. I find that networking events can be extremely helpful. You have to treat them correctly. You have to operate within them correctly. If you go to one networking event every month, for example, and you meet five people, you get five business contacts, […]
Time Value Of Money
Time Preference Derivation There is an idea and economics that involves thinking about money in two different ways. If you thought about having $1 million now versus having $1 million plus a little bit more in the future, there’s a point where the money that you imagine now versus that same amount of money plus […]
Effective Con Strategies
Con Movies There are a lot of fantastic movies about con artists. There’s movies about short-term cons and there’s movies about long-term cons. Whether you’re trying out a long-term con or a short term con the basic strategy is the same. You have to create a false reality around your target and you have […]
Hidden Brokenness
Hey, Dude! I was at a bar the other night and I saw an old friend of mine. It took me a few seconds to recognize him because he was a shell of the man that I remember. The man that I remember was a guy that was extremely confident. Extremely secure extremely friendly […]
Imaginary Laundry Witch
Not Finished Apartment Recently I moved into a new apartment complex. Unfortunately this new apartment complex doesn’t yet have an operational laundry facility is something that you want to search for when you’re searching for apartments there’s a lot of criteria to look for. When I was doing laundry I had to find another […]
Orphaned Hungry Rats
House Party Hookup A couple of weeks ago I was in this location and I was leaving and I saw a friend of mine. The friend of mine was coming in just as I was leaving. That wasn’t, it wasn’t a situation where we didn’t really have much time to stop and chat. He […]
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