Lines: A Beginner’s Guide
- It’s my job. Except that it wasn’t. I wasn’t promoting anything. In fact, the interaction could have been detrimental to my career, were I to have inadvertently said something insulting about the king of Norway. Technically, there was more downside than upside.
Chuck Klosterman • Eating the Dinosaur
My neighborhood in Queens is filled with quick honkers. At a green light, if you’re half a second too slow, you get an angry honk. Happened to me. I imagined getting out of my car to talk with the driver behind me, only to find out he’s something like a 10’ preying mantis. He stabs me, and I go into a dream state, in a court filled with mantis peop
... See morePsychologists Jeffrey Rubin and Joel Brockner conducted an amusing experiment to answer two questions: How long will people wait for something that never arrives, and what price will they pay to continue waiting? It turns out people will wait a surprisingly long amount of time, and they will pay an amount that clearly exceeds the value of what they
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