Category: Experiences
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When a lunch date turns into a lesson in contentment
I had a lunch date with my wife today, and I was reminded of just how incredibly profound contentment is. Contentment is one of the most difficult concepts in the entire world for rich people like me to grasp, because it’s the least obvious and most backwards path to walk down…
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Golf and the importance of sometimes not keeping score
I played golf on Sunday with a couple buddies at an old public course ten or fifteen miles east of Raleigh. I didn’t keep score for myself. Now, before you call me a communist or worse, let me say I’m a firm believer that “keeping score” is generally an important part of…
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Ribeye, Crispy Pig Head, and how to avoid the same old same old
I love food so much. I mean, how good is eating? Here are a few of my favorite meals: The Coq au Vin from Coquette The ribeye at Stanbury The Dirty South at Chuck’s (make it a double…) The Arugula Salad with grilled chicken from Bella Monica Steak tacos with…
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Don’t move to California for the weather
Though I claim the Old North State as my own, I was actually born in Southern California, which is something I used to think made me really cool to girls in middle school, probably. California is, and I mean this as non-pejoratively as I can, a strange magical land.…
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The winos are lying
Studies have shown pretty conclusively that your chances of being able to tell expensive wine from Three-Buck Chuck in a blind taste are essentially 50:50. In other words, you can’t really tell the difference. I’m not a wino myself, so this is hilarious to me, but winos aren’t amused (and often just flat…
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Free stuff that matters
Do you know how much it costs to look someone in the eye, or to put your phone down and listen, or to send a random note, or to shoot baskets with your kid, or to give someone a ride, or to ask a good question, or to say “I…
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Happiness is an inexact science, and not a science at all
Your present self doesn’t quite know what will make your future self truly happy and fulfilled, which makes this business of living a pretty tough one. We sort of go around doing things right now that our in-five-seconds-or-hours-or-months-or-years-self will appreciate and be grateful for, and this is natural and expected.…
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The unified theory of money
A great dish hits you like a Whip-It: There’s momentary elation, a brief ripple of pure pleasure in the spacetime continuum. That’s what I was chasing, that split second when someone tastes something so delicious that their conversation suddenly derails and they blurt out something guttural like they stubbed their…
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Completely Avoidable Complication That You Don’t Avoid
I’m not old, but I’m older than I used to be, and life as a result is more complicated. As far as I can tell, this is a universal axiom. There are, to be sure, physicists and philosophers who have very different ideas about Time and whether it exists on…
Meaningful Returns 