Mediocre Apologist

Guys, I think I just solved choking. The Origin It’s a hot, mid-April afternoon in Merced, California. My doubles partner and lifelong best friend are playing high school doubles. The winner goes to sectionals. We’re up 5-2 against two of Merced High’s best doubles players. But our lead starts slipping. Our double break advantage teeters…

My entire life I’ve been lookin for a way to get rich quick. When you grow up poor in the cuts of Fresno, California, with a father slaving away fifteen hours a day installing windows, you develop the hunger for the good life. And that hunger makes you sharp as a knife. I am as…

They say “don’t judge a book by its cover;” but what about judging a book by its title?

People accuse ChatGPT of being sycophantic — meaning that it tells you what you want to hear . Assuming this is true , consider how this behavior affects our human-to-human interactions. The argument is as follows:  Conclusion? The more we use ChatGPT, the more it trains us to be sycophantic. But not just towards the…

Why is it the case a fountain beverage without ice feels like it’s missing something ? Why does ice “perfect” a fountain beverage, if you will? Have you ever seen an ad for Coca Cola that didn’t include ice in the cup? Or ice in the background ? Every fountain beverage dispenser has ice right…

I know this may seem strange to you, but society used to not be so just and egalitarian as it is today. Before the modern invention of “equality,” there used to exist castes that you were born into, and couldn’t break out of, no matter how hard you try. There were the plebs and there…

what’s the word that best describes what I’m trying to say: definitive, definite, determine, discern, decide, define, decipher, demonstrate, disentangle, delimit, distinguish, or dictate?

To all those who have successfully shed themselves of their psychotherapist; with all those who know the truth about “mental health professionals;” for all those who have yet to learn how sick they truly are: I am here for you. There is nothing more humiliating than disclosing your private thoughts to a psychotherapist, just so…

variety is the spice of life; which is to say variety is a supplement to life; which is to say life can go on without variety; which is to say variety is alien to life; which is to say variety exists outside life itself; which is to say life by itself lacks variety without variety.…

Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People has to be one of the most helpful books I have ever read. It taught me a skill I could not have learned otherwise. It’s one-of-a kind! Nothing else is like it. No other book has helped me feel better about firing my employees! When the…