I’m upset that, for those of us with any perceived potential upward mobility, there’s no way to enjoy being poor. We must fear it. Throughout centuries and cultures there’s been roles or paths where poverty is OK, expected even. …

Had the wildest conversation with my wife last night! She was tired, but I was talkative… That doesn’t happen with us very much — me freely communicating. I get moody and weird to her so often that it’s not easy to share what I think. But last night was different…

You don’t start a business. You get pregnant, you harbor it, you carry it around as it feeds on you, you see the inevitability of it, try to convince your partner of it, prepare yourself and the spare room for its arrival. You run the numbers and plan for new expenses, new schedules, new friends. — A business evolves, it takes shape, it shapes you as much as you shape it. It has it’s own life, its own hopes, desires, and sometimes very different ideas than the founder originally planned.

I woke up on our first full day in Dallas to the sound of my wife crying loudly from the bathroom. To my mind it could only be one thing. I was right. — We had been pregnant. 13 weeks. Just basically right at the time where you could expect things, statistically, to go well. But, as my wife, Mellisa, puts it, “I’m cursed so statistics don’t work on me.” She had started bleeding. …

Every morning I need an hour or so to remind myself that the significance and notoriety I seek won’t make me feel what I think they will, won’t give me what I feel I need. I am already as significant as I can be. There’s other columns in the spreadsheet…

If you brought our most ancient tool-making ancestor to America today, what would they see? — The oldest tool found to date is about 3.3 million years old. It’s a cheap tool. Simple rock with a sharpened end used for bludgeoning and breaking bones to eat the marrow. (We were a kind of bottom feeder once.) If I was Marty McFly and I had an unlikely-genius…

I love the schnitzel out of the family I grew up with. They’re hilarious, loving and know how to have a good time. There’s a few traditions we have — mom’s toffee, everyone together, subtle racism from uncles, Manheim Steamroller on repeat — and they’re good, but I think we…

That video came highly recommended to me from a friend and fellow “i’m sure I’m fucking things up all the time” kind of person. I am sure, you know. I’m quite sure I’m fucking things up all the time. I’m quite sure I’ve picked the wrong path for my…

A book by Aiden Chase Reeves One day the robber went out to rob a bank. And then the robber got to the bank. He slammed the door open and he went inside. And then the butt officer slammed the door open and said, “PPFFFFFFTTTtttttTTTTT.” The robber screamed. And then…