
I Was Gonna Climb a Building
I was gonna climb a building, but I didn’t, because I met a girl.
Stating the semi-obvious...
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I was gonna climb a building, but I didn’t, because I met a girl.

I’ve had this conversation twice now in the past month, once with a young budding artist, and once with a successful author/entrepreneur, so I’m gonna take that as a sign that there’s something here worth unpacking.

I wish women knew how uncomfortable it is as a guy to meet your girlfriend’s friends.

You can only lose her by texting too much, too soon.

Beware of the ‘never explain yourself’ philosophy.

How blowing up my savings accidentally forced me to build a business instead of waiting for one.

This is the real reason it’s so hard to fake being old money.

Always keep something up your psychological sleeve for when nothing is working out.

The problem is people have been conditioned to be repulsed by meditation because so many of the people talking about it come off as so disingenuous or annoyingly sincere that these other people are afraid if they start meditating it’s gonna change their personality and they’ll become a granola cruncher too.

A lot of men privately hold this fantasy that if they could just bag the unbaggable baddie, it would amount to some sort of enlightenment experience.