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 …
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” is one of my favorite George Bernard Shaw quotes. We think that communication is happening every time two people speak to one another, when that is far from the case. From the Latin communicare (“to share”), communication is the act of …
In classic Greek mythology, two hazards awaited sailors attempting to pass the Strait of Messina. On one side was Scylla, a horrifying six-headed sea monster. On the other was Charybdis, a whirlpool that threatened to sink the entire ship. The strait was so narrow that attempting to avoid one invariably put the men within reach …