Terence Faircloth

Relevance

A good test when reading the news is to constantly ask, “Will I still care about this story in a year? Two years? Five years?”

Office

Hell with fluorescent lighting.

Luck writes the first chapter, but your actions write the rest.

— Shane Parrish

Negotiation

In a negotiation, never make the first offer.

⁠⁠Roadtripping through the South is an experience that I associate with empty Arizona cans, endless stretches of interstate, Spotify, the occasional Hostess Zinger, and my compulsive noticing and reading-out-loud of every passing billboard. After a couple hundred such noticings of these advertising relics, the thematic frequent fliers become appare

…the higher ed bubble, wherein students are commonly paying upwards of $90,000/year to learn how to do laundry and read Chaucer.

— Peter Thiel

Loser

He’s the sort of guy who can fall in a barrel of tits and come out sucking his thumb.

He’s like a leper in a singles bar

He spent more on tattoos than on dental hygeine

He was like a lion tamer in a pork chop suit

He looked like a pure-bred Bookkeeper.

Creme de la Crumbs

You’re a shit magnet

Chump’s got a sansabelt in Karate

Couldn’t find his way up a

Life

Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next