Life Advice

In the last few years, social networks like Facebook have become a major part of social communication. People plan events with their friends, they shout out what they ate for breakfast, and perhaps most importantly – they post pictures of their cats and babies.

When it comes to long and important messages, though, email still reigns supreme, and though it’s been around for decades, people are still fucking terrible at using it. So I’m going to share with you a sort of email etiquette that I’ve come up with on the fly after years of receiving terrible or completely

Since humanity first decided that gold and diamonds were valuable and worth hording, people have been developing ever craftier ways to store and conceal said valuables. From massive metal vaults to hollowed out books around the home, we’ve come up with a wide range of ways to stash things. It’s almost an art-form, really.

So on that note I’ve come to offer you a few suggestions for stashing your valuables both at home, and when you’re traveling around the world on your crazy adventures. Though many high-tech solutions exist, today I’m going to focus on

In 1982, two social scientists by the name of James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling came up with a new criminological theory they called the broken windows theory. This theory suggests that when vandalism is clearly present, people tend to commit more acts of vandalism (and more serious crimes) themselves. I found this concept very interesting, and over the past year realized that this applies to a lot more than just acts of vandalism; it applies to things as simple as unwashed dishes.

Have you ever noticed that if you leave a few dishes in the sink overnight, you don’t really feel like dealing with them the next morning? You’ll do it later, you tell yourself. Then, when you get home from work, you