I’m not proud to admit it, but I’m a lazy, slothful, indolent person. Most of the time, a part of my mind is constantly scanning my situation to figure out “How can I get out of this work? What shortcuts can I take to get back to doing nothing as...
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A few months ago I got a new car. After a few weeks of driving I discovered one of the car’s features (buried in a touchscreen menu) is to heat up the steering wheel. I had never had the experience of a heated steering wheel. It sounds kind of...
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Take a box filled with puzzle pieces, shake it up for a while, and then empty the pieces on to a table. What are the chances that all that shaking happened to connect all the pieces, and out pops the puzzle, fully completed? You intuitively know...
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I’ve noticed my daughter has started to hit that age where she “feels” time. For example, she feels like summer break is an intolerably long time away, even though there’s less than a month until it starts. As an adult, something happening in less...
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I smoked cigarettes through my 20s. When I decided to quit, I started two years of the same cycle. I’d stop for a week, maybe three, and then I’d go out with my friends to a bar and bum a cigarette from a friend. One would turn into five, then I’d...
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