Pro tip: Costco sometimes has Blue Apron gift cards on sale. I’ve bought $100 worth of gift cards for $65 before. Make those mediocre overpriced meals slightly less overpriced.
This could actually be a great way to kick some ass early in the interview. Get a 45-60 second elevator speech about yourself (doesn’t matter if it’s filled with bullshit as long as it follows your resume) and practice it a bunch of times. Soon enough, reciting that thing will become automatic and you’ll get really good at it.
It’ll be great. I was in Maui for the World Cup Final. Started drinking at 4:30, was hammered by 8 and blacked out by 9. Took a 4 hour nap and was ready to resume the day’s normal activities by 1 PM. Highly recommend it.
Indian summer is basically the only time of the year when San Francisco gets above 70 during the day so I’m excited for this next month of light sweater weather. And football. Lots and lots of football.
After I recently moved, I had to change my CPA license address. Turns out, there’s two ways to do that with the California Board of Accountancy: mail or fax. I guess they’re still living in 1994 over there in Sacramento.
We’ve always been envious, it’s human nature. I just think that social media and technology have amplified it. Think about it – before social media, our daily interactions were basically limited to people that we saw in person that day. Now, I can see what that random dude from freshman English is doing even though I haven’t talked to him in eight years. And that random dude, fully equipped with the instinctual need for social gratification and acknowledgement that has been a staple of our brains for hundreds of thousands of years, will post an awesome picture of his travels to some picturesque place in Europe and reap all the dopamine releases, triggered by likes on his photo indicating social acknowledgement, that he can get.
There have been numerous studies on social media and dopamine and that’s social media in a nutshell: a new ability to trigger the very chemical reactions in our brain that have been triggered by other means for all of human history.
Great piece, thanks a lot for writing and publishing. I think a lot of us tend to forget that more often than not, we never actually figure “it” out. And honestly, that’s okay.
There’s a reason that there are millions upon millions of books, movies and songs that describe the positives and negatives of our lives. The human experience is ugly and painful, but also beautiful and incredible. It’s just as hard to accept that live will ebb and flow as it is going through those ebbs and flows.
Social media is utter trash, but if you’re still on it, you also have to remember that things aren’t always what they seem. For all you may know, Sarah Sororitygirl could be on that trip to Aruba in a last ditch effort to save her marriage after she found her husband cheating on her and that five star meal may be just another rock on top of a mountain on credit card debt. But of course, those things won’t result in all those likes that feel oh-so-good as we receive the recognition and acknowledgement that our primal brains crave.
Anyway, not sure where I was going with this, but the older I get (although I have yet to turn 30), the more the point that most adults have no idea what they’re doing with their lives and are just bullshitting through them makes more sense.
IKEA is your best friend for furniture, you can find some really good stuff there that’s moderately priced. After we moved into our new place, the girlfriend and I bought a ton of furniture there, including an incredible L-shaped couch.
This is awful advice, probably the second worst after what Katie wrote about. You’re not going to meet someone sitting on your ass watching Netflix all weekend. You have to put yourself out there.
Not as excited as I should be because I don’t have as much time to play video games anymore. But with it coming out right around the holidays, I’m hoping to get some solid time in.
The goal is one beer per half of the 3 games I’m planning to watch so it’ll be spaced out over time. Although that may change if watching UCLA in the Chip Kelly era begins reminding me of UCLA in the Jim Mora era.
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Given that it never gets above 75 or below 45 here, I don’t really wear shorts.
Might be due to all that women’s clothing you wear.
Nor outside the bathroom.
Pro tip: Costco sometimes has Blue Apron gift cards on sale. I’ve bought $100 worth of gift cards for $65 before. Make those mediocre overpriced meals slightly less overpriced.
Party on Fifth Ave was the anthem of my senior year in college. RIP, Mac, and thanks for the memories (and sometimes, lack thereof).
This could actually be a great way to kick some ass early in the interview. Get a 45-60 second elevator speech about yourself (doesn’t matter if it’s filled with bullshit as long as it follows your resume) and practice it a bunch of times. Soon enough, reciting that thing will become automatic and you’ll get really good at it.
And because we still need untraceable ways to get paid under the table and avoid paying taxes.
It’ll be great. I was in Maui for the World Cup Final. Started drinking at 4:30, was hammered by 8 and blacked out by 9. Took a 4 hour nap and was ready to resume the day’s normal activities by 1 PM. Highly recommend it.
Indian summer is basically the only time of the year when San Francisco gets above 70 during the day so I’m excited for this next month of light sweater weather. And football. Lots and lots of football.
The worst is Friday night games. Why, PAC-12, why?
Wonder what lasted longer: Eric’s wait for that Uber or Eric with Alyssa later that night.
After I recently moved, I had to change my CPA license address. Turns out, there’s two ways to do that with the California Board of Accountancy: mail or fax. I guess they’re still living in 1994 over there in Sacramento.
We’ve always been envious, it’s human nature. I just think that social media and technology have amplified it. Think about it – before social media, our daily interactions were basically limited to people that we saw in person that day. Now, I can see what that random dude from freshman English is doing even though I haven’t talked to him in eight years. And that random dude, fully equipped with the instinctual need for social gratification and acknowledgement that has been a staple of our brains for hundreds of thousands of years, will post an awesome picture of his travels to some picturesque place in Europe and reap all the dopamine releases, triggered by likes on his photo indicating social acknowledgement, that he can get.
There have been numerous studies on social media and dopamine and that’s social media in a nutshell: a new ability to trigger the very chemical reactions in our brain that have been triggered by other means for all of human history.
Great piece, thanks a lot for writing and publishing. I think a lot of us tend to forget that more often than not, we never actually figure “it” out. And honestly, that’s okay.
There’s a reason that there are millions upon millions of books, movies and songs that describe the positives and negatives of our lives. The human experience is ugly and painful, but also beautiful and incredible. It’s just as hard to accept that live will ebb and flow as it is going through those ebbs and flows.
Social media is utter trash, but if you’re still on it, you also have to remember that things aren’t always what they seem. For all you may know, Sarah Sororitygirl could be on that trip to Aruba in a last ditch effort to save her marriage after she found her husband cheating on her and that five star meal may be just another rock on top of a mountain on credit card debt. But of course, those things won’t result in all those likes that feel oh-so-good as we receive the recognition and acknowledgement that our primal brains crave.
Anyway, not sure where I was going with this, but the older I get (although I have yet to turn 30), the more the point that most adults have no idea what they’re doing with their lives and are just bullshitting through them makes more sense.
IKEA is your best friend for furniture, you can find some really good stuff there that’s moderately priced. After we moved into our new place, the girlfriend and I bought a ton of furniture there, including an incredible L-shaped couch.
You’d be surprised how many people do this and then wonder why they can’t meet anyone. I was one of them.
This is awful advice, probably the second worst after what Katie wrote about. You’re not going to meet someone sitting on your ass watching Netflix all weekend. You have to put yourself out there.
Not as excited as I should be because I don’t have as much time to play video games anymore. But with it coming out right around the holidays, I’m hoping to get some solid time in.
Switch. It’s been a minute since I played Mario + Rabbids so I want to spend some solid time with it.
The goal is one beer per half of the 3 games I’m planning to watch so it’ll be spaced out over time. Although that may change if watching UCLA in the Chip Kelly era begins reminding me of UCLA in the Jim Mora era.