“You have power over your mind — not outside events, realize this and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius.
Today one of the biggest outside events of our life is going on, but you don’t need me to tell you just how important this election is. What you may need me to tell you though, is that you did your part.
Many of you are feeling a state of never-ending dread and anxiety. You’ve lost loved ones to COVID. You’ve lost loved ones overseas. You’ve lost your job or could never find one. You’ve been a victim of racial…
Stoicism is a life-guiding philosophy that has become very popular. Stoicism was founded over 2000 years ago by Zeno in Athens. Stoicism is guided by four main virtues, those being: Courage, Justice, Temperance, and Wisdom. Stoicism also revolves around the mindset that you are the only one in control of your life and your reactions to the outside world. That is to say: things are not good nor bad, things just are, it is our reaction to them that makes them one or the other.
Fight Club is one of my favorite movies. In an article written in The Daily…
On Tuesday, November 28th, Penn National Gambling purchased Barstool Sports for 450 million dollars. Many of you may only know of Barstool from Dave Portnoy’s pizza reviews, but there are much greater lessons to be learned from the story of Barstool sports than just Sally’s Apizza having the best slice in New Haven.
In 2003 Dave Portnoy (otherwise known as El Presidente) started Barstool as a print publication. In 2003 I was five years old, and not in Boston, so obviously I haven’t read any of these early print editions. I’ve been a fan of Barstool for some years now…
I love Uber. I also love Postmates. (edited: July 6, 2020, Uber acquired Postmates for a pretty 2.65B.)I also love the Starbucks app. Being able to order a car, have food from my favorite restaurants delivered, and have my coffee order ready upon arrival are three things that I could not live without. It occurred to me, when I skipped a long Starbucks line and picked my coffee up (flaunting it as I left the store, obviously,) that I can pretty much do everything from my phone. …
INT: A college apartment, with two guys, one sitting on the couch. One is wearing green socks and looking at himself in a mirror. There is a Couch, Tv, Table, Etc…
Jason
Are you sure this looks okay?
Brian
To be honest, I don’t really like the socks.
Jason
The socks? That’s such a weird thing to not like?
Brian
Dude, they’re green.
Jason
Yeah, but like, they’re socks who cares.
Brian
You asked what I thought, I told you, I don’t like the socks.
Jason
I didn’t ask what you thought, I asked if it looked okay.
` Brian
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