The problem with experience is that you don’t have it when you need it. Here is a list of 5 things I needed to know when I was younger. Maybe it will help someone who hasn’t learned these lessons. After all, it’s better to learn from the mistakes of others than from your own.

This is a guest post by Sergei Petrov, an adrenaline junkie and a jack-of-all-trades. In Neal Stephenson’s awesome novel Snow Crash, Hiro Protagonist is a part-black, part-Korean hacker, swordsman, pizza delivery man, and intelligence agent. I already have him beat: I’m a Russian-American web developer, pizza delivery man, partial firefighter, paintball player, partial EMT, partial [...]

Until I was about 16 I was pretty shy. It drove me nuts to see people socializing and expanding their circles of friends with no effort. Why was it so easy for them to do it when I spent weekend after weekend with the same two friends? When I got my driver’s license, things got [...]

It seems that brands of vodka are multiplying lately. Americans now have a much more diverse array of vodkas to choose from than they did just five years ago. Many of the domestic competitors are turning out to be fantastic, arguments from vodka purists aside. My favorite development among domestic vodkas has been the spread [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of stumbling lately, and decided to put together a list of my favorite links. As usual, my main purpose is to entertain, even though some of these can be useful. Enjoy!