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First Day with My New Brain Chemistry

April 16, 2015 by Dan Bailey

If you’ve been around me, you’ve realized that I’ve got ADD. But I didn’t know I did…and then when I did know, I didn’t want to admit it. And then when I did finally admit it, it was because it was making a mess of my life and my career. And when I got over … Read more

Use a Layered Reading Approach to Get Through Your Backlog of Books

April 14, 2015 by Dan Bailey

http://lifehacker.com/use-a-layered-reading-approach-to-get-through-your-back-1697745696?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Scenes from a Weekend

April 13, 2015 by Dan Bailey

Discovered I made a pretty fundamental flaw in the front triangle of the CX/gravel crusher frame. If it were for a client, I’d be starting from scratch. Since it’s for me, and it doesn’t render the bike unrideable or unsafe, I’m going to stick with it. No, I’m not going to tell you the mistake … Read more

The complete and logical guide to winning at your own life in 19 super difficult steps

March 30, 2015 by Dan Bailey

https://medium.com/i-dont-know-a-thing/the-complete-and-logical-guide-to-winning-at-your-own-life-in-19-super-difficult-steps-135a17b3c5c6

Those Moments

March 19, 2015 by Dan Bailey

Yesterday, I left the house for work at noon, with Sam sick, and Eddy in the midst of a full-blown tantrum — the type of tantrum only a three year-old can possibly throw: ridiculous subject matter (“no, I don’t want peaches with my lunch!”) and the kind of focus a sniper would envy. As I … Read more

Frank Sinatra, Playboy Interview, 1963

March 19, 2015 by Dan Bailey

First: I believe in you and me. I’m like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life — in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things … Read more

Some people need to be the victim. It excuses them for being a piece of shit.

March 12, 2015 by Dan Bailey

/u/SalaciousSteve

(This also explains some shit about some people I had the misfortune of knowing.)

Both my life and your life are ridiculously abundant and safe compared to almost every human who has ever lived before you in the history of this planet. If we can’t be happy in this incredible place of privilege, we need to punch ourselves in the face and try again.

February 28, 2015 by Dan Bailey

Mr. Money Moustache

Posting Prompt: Ritual Behaviors

February 13, 2015 by Dan Bailey

Recently, on Twitter, I asked my followers to provide me with some ideas to blog about. This was the first response, and I was pretty stoked by the idea. (Got other things I should write about? Comment in this post.)

@fontosaurus Tell us about your superstitions and/or favourite rituals, and how they came to be.

— Katy (@KatyChancey) February 10, 2015

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

January 19, 2015 by Dan Bailey

Carl Jung