“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Game Theory and game theory

The Game Meets the Theory Stephanie’s recent missive on attraction (also presented here as a guest post) was interesting for a number of reasons, but from my perspective the best thing about it is its use of the branch of mathematics that we know of as game...

Play to your introverted strengths

Halfbreed’s one of the most interesting characters I’ve come across in my readings thus far. His blog is an oddball combination of travel stories, funny sex stories, and great game advice for quiet bookish guys. His latest post is very much in the latter...

Guest Post: Attraction and Game Theory by Stephanie

[Here is the second of a two-part set of guest posts by Stephanie Shepard. You can find the first here, and of course at Stephanie’s new blog. I recommend taking a trip over there and to her main blog, she doesn’t post frequently but she writes well and...

Seven lessons in leadership, learned the hard way

Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while knows that I spend a lot of time writing on the subject of deep introverts and our place within our wider society. For those folks unfortunate enough not to understand us very well- i.e. pretty much everyone else-...

Leadership 101

Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey- yeah, that R. Lee Ermey- has an interesting piece on leadership published today, in honour of Veteran’s Day: Leadership cannot be taught! I can’t do it, the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps can’t do it, and instructors at...

The relentless pursuit of perfection

The Long Road If you’ve started taking regular doses of the red pill, you’re going to realise pretty soon that you face certain shortcomings as a man which you know that you must overcome. And when you embark down the road of serious, constant, rigourous...

Theoretical Offence?

The inimitable Blackdragon posted a piece a while back that, apparently, caused several readers to erupt into frothing rage: Let’s take a Star Trek moment and say a tear in the space-time continuum caused an alternate timeline in which I was born a female instead of a...

The Endpoint of Game

Danger & Play answered a reader’s question recently about why he doesn’t really post on game anymore; his respectful disagreement was a masterpiece: Think of game like an investment strategy. Ideally we would all have substantial assets that would...

What’s Holding You Back?

Recent events got me thinking about why so many people have so much trouble getting what they want out of life. I’m sure you’ve seen this plenty of times- and you’re probably guilty of it yourself: someone sets a goal, decides that he wants to do...