The COVID-19 pandemic created a lot of winners (e.g. Amazon, Spikeball) and losers (e.g. airlines, extroverts). Among the former was social deduction game Among Us. Like most indie games, it languished in obscurity after debuting on Steam in November of 2018. However, the developers didn’t quit. Their determination was rewarded when big name Twitch streamers …
Six months before the 2016 US Presidential election, I started piling money into bets that Donald Trump would win. The next year, I did the same leading up to the Mayweather versus McGregor boxing match. The eventual proceeds formed the basis of a financial nest egg that I used to buy my own time and …
A few weeks ago, I received an email that began with “Your Settlement Payment”. Thinking it was spam, I reached for the delete key before remembering what it was for. Common in the United States, class actions are “a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented …
Although I had plenty of positive experiences, my general impression of primary and secondary education was unfavorable. Classes were frequently unchallenging, originality was punished, and my social ineptitude led to years of bullying. Sometime after I graduated from high school, I discovered Paul Graham’s Why Nerds are Unpopular. Suddenly, everything made sense. The essay was …