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Far from the Tree
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…
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A Title Isn’t Everything…
They say “don’t judge a book by its cover;” but what about judging a book by its title?
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Son of a Sycophant
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…
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Ice
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…
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Was Tony Montana Noble?
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…
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Writing on the Wall
Words can’t hurt you; but they can surely become “sticks” and “stones.”
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I Forgot
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?
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Beginner’s Luck
Are athletes born or made: I’ve spent my life trying to solve this riddle. As a child of the Athletic Director at the University of Miami, I was exposed to the nation’s most elite athletes from a young age. I observed them practice, compete, and lose over and over again. When I became a collegiate…
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Cat Got Your Tongue
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…
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Variety
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.…