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There Are Fifty Blogs on SETT Now!
Last Friday night, after two years of really hard work on SETT, we sent invite codes out to the four hundred people on the SETT waiting list, offering fifty spots. Whoever managed to snag a spot could either take a free basic account or buy a premium account and get 50% off for life. The…
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Past, Present, Future
There’s this new-age idea that we should all be completely in the present at all times, ignoring the past and the future. Some people go so far as to parrot phrases like “the present is the only thing that really exists”, or “live every day like it’s your last!”. I disagree. I think that there’s…
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Not Regretting Something Doesn’t Make it Right
I’ve noticed that a lot of times when I do something and I wonder for a moment if it was the best choice or not, I tend to come to the conclusion that I don’t regret it, so it must be good. For example, I was debating whether a week or so of sharply diminished…
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Roughly What You Deserve
Back when I was gambling professionally, it seemed like everyone had an opinion on which casino was rigged. I never really thought that, but I also didn’t really think that I was winning as much as I was supposed to. To test this, I recorded every single session I played for over a year. Guess…
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Average People
When I write about “average people” or “average Americans”, I often get flack about it. Some people call me elitist. Occasionally I get called something worse. Then there are the comments about how if everyone did something that I suggest, it wouldn’t work anymore, or that the average person isn’t exactly the same as me,…
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Interesting Art Things
I must be in an art sort of mood. I went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before Christmas, and then went to the Met and Museum of Modern Art in New York after New Years. Today I even skimmed a book on drawing, but gave up after discovering the first exercise in…
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My Daily Meals
A few people asked what I eat every day. I think that what I eat is of minor interest, but maybe the reasoning behind it might be more valuable. First the what. My friend Dick Talens suggested that I do intermittent fasting, which means that I eat during only an eight hour period each day.…
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Stimulation and How I Learned to Love Dishwashing
When I bought a house ten years ago, I also bought place settings for six and silverware for twelve. Then I developed a minor fascination with bone China and bought settings for eight. I probably had four dozen glasses. About once a month or so, all of these dishes would be piled up in and…
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Goodbye 2012
I’m sitting by a crackling fire at my aunt and uncle’s house in New Jersey and we’re just a couple hours into the new year, which means that it’s a perfect time to review the year and look forward. If I were to title my year, I’d call it the year I got serious. Something…
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Being Your Own Boss
Standards are an interesting thing. They don’t dictate exact performance, but they do sketch out a ballpark. If you expect yourself to read a book a week, you may not actually do that, but you’ll probably read a book most weeks. If a boss tells you to have something done one month from now, you’ll…
