Boku No Hero — kid enters an academy to learn how to control gifted godlike power
One Punch Man — a warm, clever story of Saitama, a bored hero who can punch out a meteor
Promised Neverland — a gut-wrenching story of orphans being grown as demon food
Chiron — the wounded healer that unlocks a cosmic talent
Saturn — the Grim Reaper that heralds the closing of a cycle
Finding value in odds — estimate chances better than bookies to beat them
Emotions and budget — overcoming wishful thinking and impulsive monetary spending decisions
How to quit — select a few teams and bet only on them
Belly fat — symptom of liver malfunction caused by excess dietary toxins
Concussion — cumulative head trauma that can cause amnesia and change the person completely
Earwax — sticky protector of the inner ear prone to petrification
Hand tingles — effects of long-term pressure on the ulnar nerve
Lower jaw — keep your mouth shut for clean air and potential correction of misaligned teeth
Stress — natural bodily response to perceived mortal danger
Marathon exertion — your body is designed to endure
Neck spine — breaking point for the person's will
Red Rising — weird quasi-Roman sci-fi series of rebellion on Mars
Wheel of Time — a mind-bogglingly large fantasy series that should not be read without a glossary
Dopamine — a straight man looking at an ugly woman loses the will to live
Dealing with cops — quiet around professionals who pin crimes on whoever comes their way
Hate speech — shouting controversial ideas off the shoulders of literary giants
Justice — exact measurement and Christ-like correction of wrongs
Petitions — the universal, limitless right to complain analyzed by region and time period
Article 11 & 13 — how EU is trying to curb US tech giants through legislation
COPPA — how Google tried to dance around child privacy laws by burdening Youtube creators
Firefox — struggling to analyze the mountains of code
GDPR explained — how EU legislators tried to shut down third-party tracker cookies
LUN whitepaper — exchange of comedy gold on the mockchain
Obfuscated content — how websites hide short text articles behind massive walls of code
Social media — the perfect online representation of socialist societies
Terms of service — eternally shifting one-sided agreement that constricts the user
Tesla car — attaching a car to a computer creates a huge mess
Website builders — getting a website started from scratch
Trench Warfare strategy gamette — realistic simulation of WWI
Alkaline diet — making life more difficult for pesky microorganisms
Weight loss — aromatic spices curb appetite and reverse obesity-related organ changes
Heuristic — an automatic process of discovery and decision making that determines all we do
Homo ludens — playful human who built a power plant in Chilean jungle
Fabien Sanglard — French software engineer with a clean website
Jeff Huang — manifesto for preserving content on the web
Wolfgang Wodarg — German doctor delivering facts on the COVID-19 pandemic
Unrealistic movie tropes — silly, harmful or plain wrong ideas movies keep repeating
Focus your investments — avoid having your budget slowly bleed out
Cutting expenses — how I tried to cut my food expenses by 71.4% but failed a week in
Paying big — paying in advance and as a lump sum often gives a discount
Borderlands GOTY — floaty cell-shaded FPS with RPG elements
Grim Dawn — Diablo wannabe that largely favors melee builds
Hearthstone — testing Hotjar script
Noita — fun sandbox experience that lacks proper game mechanics
They Are Billions — a janky jewel with three facets: RTS, TBS, and TD
Self-care – provide immediate care and shock relief to yourself when injured or distressed
Orthopedic shoes — getting support for the inner arches of feet relieves tremendous pressure
Pneumonia — low-level killer that follows us around but doctors will not treat until critical
Sleep schedule — fixing a messed up circadian cycle through late-night light avoidance
Textbroker — for US writers with great grammar who know AP style
Renting — rent out your consoles or other devices for quick cash
Jokes — tidbits of wit for your delight
Onomatopoeia — a list of English words that have to do with mimicking sounds
Anxiety — when the secondary brain in the stomach goes rogue and sees danger everywhere
Clickbait — how your mind can be hijacked with strong words and emotional pictures
Demoralization — subordination through hyper-consumerism
Doubling down — adding more power to a bad solution makes it worse
Eye contact — eye movement reveals brain activity direction and levels
Inner satisfaction — dwell in a mental and emotional place where nothing can perturb it
Joy — do whatever gives you joy
Life purpose — finding a meaningful end to your existence
Managerial jargon — saying a whole lot of nothing to shed responsibility
Megalomania — delusions of grandeur, power and wealth
Mental illness — everyone is crazy except you
Narcissism — getting stuck between loving yourself and loving the world
Play — essential bonding activity that is both planned and spontaneous
Psychopathy — insatiable lust for power that ignores human cries for help or mercy
True happiness — when all the negativity fades away, what remains is true happiness
Quotes — what extraordinary people have to say about life
Wishful thinking — how brain incorrectly understands probability
Angel Has Fallen (2019) — tons of action but a poor lead make it a 7/10
Avengers: Endgame (2019) — poor humor and time travel make it an 8/10
Don't Breathe 2 — a touching but overly dark action flick with horror elements is a 9/10 movie
Hobbs and Shaw (2019) — amazing buddy action and a trainwreck ending make it a 9/10
Crawl (2019) — strong female lead and brutal dismemberment make it a 9/10
Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019) — forced Chinese plots and aged out Stallone make it a 7/10
Jack Reacher (2012) — thank God this isn't a cinematic universe since it's a 5/10
Waterloo (1970) — an old-school war epic of Napoleon's defeat with 20,000 stuntmen is a 10/10
Being ignored — those who ignore you think you are mentally ill
Cliques — tiny, exclusive groups rule everything
Crummy partners — associating with crummy people can make you miserable
Defeating strawmen — avoid emotional debates that leave you humiliated and drained
Emancipation — liberating oneself from the absolute power of a father figure
False time constraint — cutting through dead silence and awkward conversations
Friendliness — weakness in front of strangers but strength in front of acquaintances
Gossip — avoid people who spread gossip as if your life depends on it
Growing together — ideal relationship fosters mutual growth
Intimacy — proper removal of distance between people requires care
Making girls flee — closet lesbians may flee from an approaching man if they fear being outed
Popularity — the innate desire to belong that squelches our unique talents and personality
True love — one who loves you will not allow you to suffer
Trapped teachers — school is a prison for them as well as for pupils
Rome (2005) — down-to-earth account of Caesar's death
Cobra Kai (2018) — revamp of the Karate Kid series, with emphasis on the villain
Disenchantment (2018) — medieval teenage girl drama Futurama ripoff that suddenly picks up
Peaky Blinders — a 20th century English gang's turf war
Star Trek Discovery — a feeble attempt to cash in on the Star Trek name and milk the nostalgic fans
The Boys — satire of superhero shows
The Last Kingdom — medieval tale of Vikings struggling to survive and thrive
Braindead habits — easily repeatable, low-effort habits lead to success
Dealing with isolation — extreme success can make a person outpace its environmentHyper-productivity — capitalism rewards excessive producers regardless of the actual product
Lead generation — constantly create many more opportunities than you could ever use
Personal branding — imparting your philosophy onto your content delivered through your platform
Personal platform — your own corner of the internet to which you funnel your audience
JSS score, the almighty Upwork algorithm — how to work with rather than against it