“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.”

Book Review: Red Pill Orgasm by Halfbreed (LSFW)

[Note: This isn’t the sort of book I normally review, but it IS Halfbreed’s work, of which I think quite highly, and this book was actually worth reading. Nonetheless I would say that this isn’t the sort of thing you want popping up on your PC at...

Be a Man: Money and Freedom

It’s been a bloody long while since I last did one of these, and I figure it’s time to look at one of the most underrated aspects of the self-aware man: money. If game, or charisma, or mastery, or whatever you want to call it, is about anything, it is...

“You’re ALL crazy”

Riddle me this, Batman: how do you push a feminist’s buttons to the point of a near-total meltdown? Well, you could try this approach. Or you could do what I did a few weeks ago when my little sister came over to stay with me. This is pretty much how the...

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...

Time management for cranky misanthropic bastards

The original title of this post WAS supposed to be “Time management for introverts”, but I figure Vox probably wouldn’t mind this version too much: I wouldn’t call myself a master of time management. I’m lazy, I procrastinate, and I am...

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-...

The care and feeding of deep introverts

It’s always an interesting experience being a deep introvert in a highly extroverted society. Even if you work in a relatively cloistered environment (like I do), you’ll still experience the life-draining, soul-sucking presence of other people no matter...

Introvert Kryptonite

Didact walks into a bookstore… Didact: “OK, I’m not going to spend more than thirty minutes in here, and I’m not spending more than $50 on three items, I know exactly what books I want to buy, and I know exactly where to- hey, look,...

Seven Years in America

[I suppose I should have written this about a month ago so that I would get the timing right, but as I’ve noted before, I’m kind of a lazy bastard. I like my couch and I like my afternoon naps on weekends, dammit…] August 22nd, 2006. A young man...