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Margaret
I used to park my RV in a bad area of SF. No one else wants to park there, so it’s always easy to find a spot. One night a friend and I were hanging out in my RV, we lost track of time, and soon the buses weren’t running anymore. She calls a cab…
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How to Actually Save Water
This was going to be a long sweeping article about how wrong we are when we care about different things: how many megapixels a camera has, how much electricity we use by keeping the lights on, using cell phones on airplanes, and swimming in the water when there’s lightning out. But instead of trying to…
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The Most Important Thing in The World
A couple weeks ago I did an “I Am A” on Reddit about being a former pickup artist, which meant that thousands of people could ask me questions about it. And they did. The questions flooded in faster than I could reasonably respond to them, which meant that sometimes I didn’t answer in as much…
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The Five Golden Rules of Favor Asking
My friend Elisia asked me to help her move. Moving is one of my least favorite activities (which partially explains why I live in an RV), but I gladly agreed to help. Why? Because she followed the golden rules of asking favors. If you want people to do you favors, or, more importantly, feel…
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I Will Teach You to be Rich Contest Results
On Tuesday I announced a contest to help Ramit promote his upcoming six week financial bootcamp. The premise was this: we played five rounds of Liar’s Poker, and whoever could guess the final score and guess the final digits on our last dollar bills would win. Before I show you the video with the results,…
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VIDEO and CONTEST – Ramit Sethi’s Financial Bootcamp
One of the more interesting people I’ve met since moving to San Francisco is Ramit Sethi, bestselling author and blogger at I Will Teach You to Be Rich. He takes an out of the box approach towards personal finance that resonates well with me. In particular I like how he focuses on conscious spending and…
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The Peg System: How to Memorize Lists of Ten in Twenty Seconds
I first learned about the peg system through pickup. The idea was simple: rather than bore a girl with dumb stories about work and parties like every other guy, you teach her an interesting skill. The next day the one guy she remembers is the one who stood out and taught her something. And…
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VIDEO: Tour of my RV
I just got my amazing new camera, the Panasonic GF1, so naturally I wanted to put it to use and make a video. Make videos with that thing is a ton of fun, so expect more videos soon (skateboards and mopeds coming up soon). The first video is a tour of my RV, including a…
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I Need Your Feedback on Life Nomadic
I’m getting close to having Life Nomadic laid out for print. Before I commit a version of it to something as permanent as paper, I’d like to get your feedback. Specifically: What did you want to hear about that I DIDN’T write about? What did I talk about that you didn’t care about? What was…
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Why I Don’t Buy Apple Products
This won’t quite be the Apple bashing that people probably expect. To start off, I don’t hate Apple. I think that they’re a spectacular company that does a lot of very smart things. I think that they build relatively high quality products and do a good job of supporting them. Even if I don’t buy…
