Monthly Archives: April 2014

Why is everyone smarter than me?

Here’s another one from the vault published in 2005. It is about the impostor syndrome and why it tends to happen. For some bizarre reason, I seemed to like the use of CAPS back then. Go figure Speaking of feeling stupid, a kind reader pointed out that the title should actually read, “Why is everyone [...]

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I plan on winning the lottery

I plan on winning the lottery (Published today in Journal Métro. Je prévois gagner à la lotterie. April 22, 2014.)  Voir plus bas pour la version Française. How’s this for a retirement plan? Spend all your money on whatever you want, but take about ten dollars every week to buy lottery tickets. As soon as [...]

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Do-overs and Mulligans

Erase! Erase! Oh, if only… Do-overs (French version published today in Métro: Recommencer, April 8, 2014) Voir plus bas pour la version Française. What if you had the power of a do-over? Or something equivalent like erasing a day from your life? When would you use it? There is no shortage of bonehead things we [...]

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