Snapple Fact Number 196: If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12. We won the lottery before my sister…
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I was still pushing a mail cart for a living, mailroom clerk extraordinaire. Having just finished Derek Sivers’ Anything You Want, I had wild ambitions:…
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We were in a mailroom, we were in a war zone. At this point in my career, I was promoted to Senior Clerk, which meant…
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Mindbender. A psychological thriller. An audio illusion. Podcast Mentalism. A hat tip to Derren Brown. One-part podcast, one-part cruel experiment, one-part magic. It’s a pilot…
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Chapter 1 of the Sufferer’s Cookbook We call it the shit factory. In Sheepshead Bay there’s a sewage treatment plant. It’s an unavoidable landmark because,…
Leave a CommentThe summer after my freshman year of junior high was gonna be the greatest one ever. I’d be spending it in the Poconos, in our…
Leave a CommentIn 1998 a small band of Soviet emigres began their silent march on the Pocono Mountains. An area that we would lovingly call The Russian…
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Pick a card, any card. Don’t worry, you can trust me. It’s just a magic trick, what’s the worst that can happen, right? Let’s see…
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Early morning. Humming generators, the sounds of cars speeding by, distant sirens echoing through the streets. It’s not ever silent, not really. Here’s a recipe…
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Per Seth, stop being authentic, start being considerate. The authentic self is the lizard brain, the knee-jerk reaction. The authentic self is the mouth that…
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