How to cut off your parents
What do you owe your family? If there is little motivation to keep in touch, just from plain lack of interest, is that okay?
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Friday, August 21, 10–11:30am PT.
How to usher in an era of abundant vengeance
A lot of people on the Internet who I once respected seem to have full-blown AI brain worms. Am I going to get conned like them at some point? Have you ever been conned by something as pervasive as this?
How to live somewhere safe
If you had to leave the U.S. where would you live?
How to be a petty motherfucker
Is there really a difference between being bitter or being petty? Most of the time I feel the latter is being confused with the former. Am I missing something here?
How to be useful
What’s your go-to piece of advice in life?
How to take a break
I am tired and taking a week off. (Also I wanna go finish that painting.)
How to help men pull their heads out of their asses
How can men help men do the work that men need to do?
How to be God
Was Jesus Christ an actual real person and the actual Son of God, or is it all crapola?
How to make friends and hold on to them
Looking around at [gestures] everything, it feels like we’ve all put maintaining friendships on the backburner. This is making me lonely and probably makes other people lonely too. How can we fix this?
How to mend a broken heart
What’s the right amount of heartache in times like these?
How to get out of bed
Mike, how do I get out of bed every day? How do I try?
How to use NO as a complete sentence
I did my job fine before AI came along. Now my workplace ‘suggests’ we use it. How do I say no?
How to remember and forget
Do you have any tricks for forgetting? I wish there were as many for forgetting as there are for remembering. How do you forget?
How to be a carnival barker
“My first book is coming out this year and I have a hard time with self promotion. What are your thoughts on getting the word out and shutting down the ‘humility’ programming so many of us grow up with?”
How to deal with your kid leaving
My child is in high school and I’ve been in deep mourning for the last two years that they’ll (likely) be leaving me first for college, and then for...life!
How to pick a movie
What are your top ten favorite movies?
How to smoke
I used to love to smoke. If it weren’t for the whole lung cancer, emphysema, death thing, would you recommend smoking?
How to read
I want to write like you when I grow up. What potential paths would you recommend to travel towards?
How to eat pizza
Can I eat the last slice of pizza in the box?