Month: November 2013

I hope my father dies soon. And while I’m at it, I might want you to die a painful death too. I’m entirely serious on both counts. My father, age 86, is on the final approach to the long dirt nap (to use his own phrase). His mind is 98%…

Warning: This blog is written for a rational audience that likes to have fun wrestling with unique or controversial points of view. It is written in a style that can easily be confused as advocacy for one sort of unpleasantness or another. It is not intended to change anyone’s beliefs or…

In my new book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, I talk about using systems instead of goals. For example, losing ten pounds is a goal (that most people can’t maintain), whereas learning to eat right is a system that…