Jack Michaels had the day off. He put on his jacket and walked out the door at a little past eight in the morning to run a few errands. His first stop was the hardware store, where he had to buy some paint and caulk to do some work on his bathroom. “Good morning, James,” […]
1,000 Ideas and a 10-Year Plan
Since I was about thirteen years old, I kept a running list of good ideas. I’m forty right now, so that’s almost thirty years of ideas. At its height, the list had over a thousand ideas. After some honing and pruning, it now stands at 647. Now, all of these ideas were “good” ideas at […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume IV
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
The Invention of Teleportation
The clock showed 11:58AM. The computers and machinery around me were humming with energy. I sat strapped tightly to the cloning chair so I wouldn’t move too much once the teleportation process began.
The Black Market at Costco
I’m going to tell you a story that may or may not have taken place at Costco. It’s a story so wild that it may or may not have ever happened. Actually, who am I kidding? I totally made this shit up.
We Live in a Quantum World
In quantum mechanics, there is a theory that the mere observation of a phenomenon inevitably changes that phenomenon. It’s called the Observer effect. I think it not only exists at the atomic level, but also plays out in all aspects of our world. Earlier today, I tweeted an observation on Twitter: If enough people see […]