The Mortality Files #1: You Are Going to Die (And Other Obvious Lies)
Your heart beat about 100,000 times today.
Continue readingReflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
It's Okay to Kiss your homies Good Night
Men are trained to love their friends in a dialect of insults and silences.We say “bro” and mean “I would carry you out of a burning building.” We say “you’re an idiot” and mean “I missed you.” We send a meme at 1 AM and mean “I am thinking about you and I hope your life is going okay,” but the meme does the talking because the talking is, for reasons none of us can fully explain, physically difficult.
Continue readingThe Last Message I Never Sent
The phone keeps twelve drafts. He keeps the phone.Draft 1. “Hey. Long time. How are you?” Written in March, 11 PM. Deleted because “how are you” is a question you ask when you’ve decided in advance not to hear the answer.
Continue readingHaggling Is a Philosophy
In the West, the price is a wall. It’s printed, it’s final, and you either pay it or leave.
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