About Eric Matzner

Jack Kerouack’s 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life: These were apparently posted on the wall in the hotel of Allen Ginsberg a year before the poem “Howl” was …
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This is an excerpt from one of my favorite books, and a classic on persuasion,  Influence by Robert Cialdini. The idea that underlays the entire book is that humans have …
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So, you may not know this, but I’m not famous, like at all. No one knows who I am or cares what I do, so I post things freely and …
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I just stumbled across this list in one of my old notebooks from circa 2005. I think many of these were SAT related or were gathered around that time. My …
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is an old story of a boilermaker who was hired to fix a huge steamship boiler system that was not working well. After listening to the engineer’s description of …
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On your voyage toward developing self-discipline, you’ll encounter torpedoes from several sources outside yourself, but your most difficult opposition will come from within. Indeed, in your efforts to develop self-discipline, …
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them …
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And you thought you had your post college year bad. These people live in buildings in Bejiing that house 40-60 people per toilet. These are the college graduates and prized …
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[dropcap]W[/dropcap]he attached article asks a good question about where the all of the innovation is in our country. We seem to be failing at pushing the boundaries in many sectors. …
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One Line Ascii Art for Twitter, IM, Text Messages, and Status Updates

Ascii Text Animals Caterpillar ,/\,/\,/\,/\,/\,/\,o

Fish <`)))><

Fish Swimming ¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º>

Happy Cat <(^.^)>

Kitty cat =^..^=

Koala …
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I remember the first time I heard Lana Del Ray’s voice, I was surfing the web and had the HypeMachine playing in the background and her voice was so …
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These guys are pretty damn awesome and have a great sound. Two of the musicians met late night in the Lowest East Side of Manhattan for the first time and …
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“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are the most active.” -Leonardo Da Vinci

Obviously you can tell this is true because I am posting this …
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Elements, chemicals, amino acids, and other essential body boosting supplements can be added to your life to a great enhancement. Coffee is essentially just a caffeine and look how dramatic …
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I like The Weeknd and this is my page dedicated to them:

Their first and my favorite of their albums. Best two songs in my opinion are Hight For This …
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Read below about how Sierra-Online, a videogame distributor got started. Ken realized that there were a lot of games being programmed and a lot of new software stores opening around …
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I guess it’s not that hard to believe, but three quarters kids aged 12-17 have cell phones. I can only imagine what it is like being a kid now, because …
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Looks like whether you are able to distinguish between imagination and reality is linked to a fold in the brain. Nothing concrete, but at the least interstering…

A Fold in …
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Ice Water in Hell

For our fifth D conference, both Steve and his longtime rival, the brilliant Bill Gates, surprisingly agreed to a joint appearance, their first extended …
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tUnE-yArDs (really annoying to spell out) is a bad ass band and while I don’t have much time to write about them right now, it is dumb to write about …
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