Posted in Fulfillment, Relationships, tagged Fulfillment, Relationships on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those who don’t know, The Tao of Steve is an excellent movie. Go watch. In short, it revolves around this guy who has developed a three step system for getting women to sleep with him. It’s surprisingly simple and, by all estimation, very effective.
Be desireless. Essentially, don’t lust after the woman you want, just [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Morality, Relationships, tagged Family, Friends, Morality, Relationships on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have this hopeful, nostalgic idea that, sometime before now, people were moved by common decency to treat others well. I believe – or really, really want to – that at some point before our litigious, pre-nup signing, anti-social, isolated society, people had manners and showed hospitality. If nothing else, I choose to believe that [...]
Posted in Link, Relationships, tagged Link, Relationships on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Joel Falconer at Life Hack recently offered some tips on building rapport. This is an area that I could stand to make some improvements in my own life. Being able to engage strangers in conversation can come in handy frequently (applying for a job, meeting new members of the opposite sex, etc). Here’s what Joel [...]
Posted in Environment, Family, Finances, Fulfillment, Link, Relationships, tagged Environment, Family, Finances, Fulfillment, Link, Relationships on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For a while now one of my favorite blogs has been No Impact Man, the ongoing writings of a liberal environmentalist who got sick of waiting for the world to change and decided to change himself. He set out over a year to drop his net environmental impact to zero (very little negative impact plus [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Honesty, Morality, Relationships, Self-Examination, tagged Family, Friends, Honesty, Morality, Relationships, Self-Examination on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs mentioned a book called Radical Honesty, which, it turns out, is part of a larger site and organization. In the book, he quoted them on the thrill of being completely honest (worthy of an amusement park ride). I don’t have first hand experience with the level of [...]
