Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 20 Things Boys Can Do to Become Men – Esquire Blogs, october 2013
DISCUSSED: the addictive chemical that makes you feel good when you reject evidence, being patient in love, copying heroes

James Somers, Are coders worth it? – Aeon Magazine, june 2013
DISCUSSED: an unexpected $120,000 job offer to put boxes on a page, being the shovel in the gold rush, not having the courage to say no

William Pesek, The Lust Beneath Japan’s Sex Drought – Bloomberg Blogs, october 2013
DISCUSSED: a forest of stereotypes, the typical weird and wacky Japan story, love hotels that can’t turn over rooms fast enough