When I was a kid, my parents would tell me to do something reasonable like clean my room. I’d probably do it, or at least make a token effort. Sometimes I wouldn’t do it, and my mom would do it for me. Or maybe I’d be out at school and she’d be sick of me…

To train any animal, you follow a simple process. You somehow indicate what you want it to do, and then when it does it, you give it a reward. Maybe in some cases you punish it if it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. Then you repeat until the animal is trained. When it…

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…

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…