Nomad Gonads

Why Did People Stand Around on 9/11?

“We resist change. Committing ourselves to a small change, even one that is unmistakably in our best interest, is often more frightening than ignoring a dangerous situation.

We are vehemently faithful to our own view of the world, our…

Say ‘I Love You’ the Wrong Way and I’ll Kill You

“ ‘Hello, good to see you.’

This sentence can be said with the energy of anger, sweetness, sexiness, hatefulness, or coyness.

You can speak with any energetic quality, pervading the concert hall…

This Post Probably Sucks

“ ‘Real artists ship.’ “ — Steve Jobs

Could it be that the difference between a generalist and a dabbler is just saying ‘this is as done as it’s going to be’ and shipping the work?

I think maybe yes. If you look at Jefferson, da…

Nobody Is Compassionate

“Myths tell us how to confront and bear and interpret suffering, but they do not say that in life there can or should be no suffering.

When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a…

Dogma Is For Squarez

“You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s…

Stop Lying: You Love The Kardashians

Everybody loves to hate soap operas, Kardashians, reality TV.

… and yet everyone watches them. Hate-watching.

If your friend is watching, you need to be up on the drama. You need to take sides. Who sucks the most?

Hemingway Was Biased AF

“For your information in stories about the war I try to show all the different sides of it, taking it slowly and honestly and examining it from many ways. So never think one story represents my viewpoint because it is much too complicated for that.

Everybody Needs Their Daily T-Swift Time

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know wat was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can…