David Cain

The sooner you do something, the more of your life you get to spend with that thing done.

The most valuable part of my post-secondary education happened during the ten hours a week I spent riding the bus between the campus and my suburban home.

very month I buy a bag of bulk steel-cut oats, a bag of trail mix and a six-pound bag of Royal Gala apples. Every morning I make a heaping half-cup of the oats and cut an apple into slices. About six months ago I added a cup of Ceylon tea to that.

I spent Friday cleaning out my desk and leaving instructions for my successors.

One maddening tendency of any small electronic device is that whenever the battery is low, it wastes most of its remaining power beeping and flashing to tell you that battery is low.

If I had given the angel on the other shoulder a chance to rebut, she would have explained the foolish tradeoff I was making. I gain twenty minutes or so of low-brow pleasure.

Since very early in my blog’s life, fans have been bugging me to both release a Best-Of compilation and give them a way to read Raptitude articles on their Kindle. The time has come.

No matter the setting, all these people are doing the same thing: just closing their eyes and letting themselves disappear.