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The Sunglasses Con

You are in a city with crowded sidewalks.  A guy in a crowd bumps up against you and his sunglasses fall off and shatter on the ground.  He accuses you of running in to him and breaking them and then says they were $150 Oakleys and demands you pay him $150 to replace...

reach out!

As you well know I feel like all of us the rest of the way down are programmed by the winners.  One way we are is the way we lionize being vulnerable and reaching out to people when we are in need.  The winners generally have built up a good enough social network (a...

Hope Poor

Hope isn’t some kind of unlimited resource one can just tap into at will (it’s marketed that way, but you will eventually see through the ad copy).  Hope works more like a credit card.  It gives you premature (and often badly needed) sustenance.  The catch is that you...

Pay

Here is an email I wrote to a company that discriminated against me on the basis of disability.  I was fully qualified for the job but did not get it.  They kept the position open awhile after so I know they didn’t find someone better. You may or may not...