Reflections Surround Yourself With Smart People
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
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Reflections Theodore Roosevelt's Letters Were Mostly Nonsense, and That Was the Point
The most powerful man in the world wrote his kids letters full of bad doodles, sillier puns, and updates on a one-legged rooster. He had a country to run. He made time for nonsense anyway.
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Reflections The Prayer I Prayed for My Son
I never prayed for my son to turn out like me. I prayed for the wisdom to get out of his way at the right moments — and the humor to survive the ones I didn't.
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Reflections Groucho Marx Wrote His Daughter Letters for Thirty Years, and They Were All Jokes
When his teenage daughter mentioned a boy she met in an elevator, Groucho didn't ask if he was trustworthy. He asked which direction the elevator was going — because going up was clearly a case of love at first sight.
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Reflections Dad Jokes Are a Love Language, Not a Crime
Every groan a dad joke earns is the point, not the failure. Researchers call it 'benign violation.' Kids call it embarrassing. It's actually one of the most reliable bonding rituals a father has.
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Reflections Vonnegut Told the Babies the Only Rule That Mattered
Kurt Vonnegut wrote a wedding toast disguised as a eulogy for newborns: welcome to Earth, it's round and wet and crowded, you've got about a hundred years, and there's only one rule he knows of.
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Reflections Keanu Reeves and the Cheapest Trick in the Book
He keeps going viral for the same unremarkable act: giving up his seat, sitting with a stranger, actually being where he is.
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Reflections Steve Martin and the Ten Years Nobody Saw
Steve Martin became famous seemingly overnight in the late 1970s. The overnight part took ten years, and he wrote a whole memoir just to set the record straight.
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Reflections Seinfeld Already Explained Your Sleep Schedule
Jerry Seinfeld has a bit about Night Guy and Morning Guy, two roommates who hate each other and never actually meet. It is the most accurate description of human nature ever delivered in a comedy club.
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Reflections Mark Twain Invented the Group Chat
Mark Twain said this before anyone had a timeline to post on. He could not have imagined how thoroughly we would ignore him.
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Reflections Belonging Without Capture
The need to belong is real. The trap that comes with it is just as real. There is a way through that does not require choosing between them.
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