Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

So I thought, maybe I should needlepoint to calm myself down now, so I don’t have outbursts on the phone. I’m going to have to ask Ryan Healy, or even Ed, our CEO, why. There are few laptops in our future. I mean, every meeting is a conference call and I’m getting a neck ache. Also, I’m getting fat. They bore me. I hayt Auntie.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The guy who sold me my car cancelled the plates the very next week. It’s always the fat people who say that. Luckily, I didn’t know that because there was a November expiration sticker on the plate. So the fact that I was driving the car illegally for three months did not bother me.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

One thing emerges very clearly is that successful performers “had practiced intensively, had studied with devoted teachers, and had been supported enthusiastically by their families throughout their developing years.” I should have been a basketball player. This is not a medical journal. In my life. I think I am trying to be an expert.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

For one thing, people who are happy do not look for a lot of choices, according to Barry Schwartz, in his book, The Paradox of Choice. For one thing, people who are happy do not look for a lot of choices, according to Barry Schwartz, in his book, The Paradox of Choice. For example, this post. But it's going to be interesting.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The idea of paying for a liberal arts education is over. It is elitist and a rip off and the Internet has democratized access to information and communication skills to the point that paying $30K a year to get them is insane. So they can get away with having incompetent career centers.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

Also, there are so many pieces of our life that we tell at different times to different people. We all have email overload: we parse our messages into 40 one-to-one messages instead of just a single one-to-many message. And I pay attention to them much more than email. At first I didn’t believe it. Why not just say it once?

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The good news is that even though I’m punting on the quest for happiness, I do have a good sense of how to know if you should be seeking happiness yourself, or if your quest for interesting makes happiness a lost cause. Plus one Sixty percent of our ability to be happy is predetermined by our genes. Here’s the test: 1.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

Before there were animals there was the flag, rising above the dirt ring, and the announcer saying everyone should sing the Star Spangled Banner to honor “the flag that protects our troops, and our churches and our great country.” So Washington, keep your hands off our guns and our health care!”

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