Don Hall 12/6/25 Don Hall 12/6/25

The John Wick Guide to Not Letting Anyone Screw With Your Soul

Why Setting Brutal, Non-Negotiable Boundaries in Work, Love, and Friendship Is the Only Way to Stop Living in Plato’s Cave of Bullshit.

David Himmel 12/5/25 David Himmel 12/5/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 30, 2025

Your life is not what you make it. It is what life lets you get away with.

Don Hall 12/2/25 Don Hall 12/2/25

A Well Earned Distrust of Permanence

People stop believing in permanence because permanence stopped believing in them.

Don Hall 12/1/25 Don Hall 12/1/25

I Believe… [Bad Photos]

...that the act of taking photos of yourself is the height of vapid stupidity and unchecked vanity. I wanna see a picture someone else took of you looking like a fresh bag of shit. Then I can know who you are.

David Himmel 11/21/25 David Himmel 11/21/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 16, 2025

How many parents use the drive to school as an opportunity to educate their young children about the impact of Snoop and Dre’s masterpiece “Ain’t Nuthin’ but a G Thang?” Just me? Dope.

Don Hall 11/19/25 Don Hall 11/19/25

The Holy Effing Balance

A semi-poetic, unfocused, whiskey-soaked rant about the sweet spot between isms and that our choices in ideologues is a pack of false shaman preaching horseshit.

Don Hall 11/17/25 Don Hall 11/17/25

I Believe… [Micromanagers]

…that until organizations realize that treating adults like wayward children destroys morale, creativity, and basic human joy, the micromanager will continue to loom—hovering, nitpicking, doubting, draining, controlling—like the world’s least charismatic supervillain.

David Himmel 11/14/25 David Himmel 11/14/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 9, 2025

Kids who had race car beds probably grew up to work in finance with an inflated ego, a coke habit, and wildly premature ejaculation issues. But for that moment in third grade, they were gods.

Don Hall 11/12/25 Don Hall 11/12/25

Hate Speech Is the New Blasphemy

In an age where every word is a potential weapon and every hurt feeling a crime scene, the loudest moralists aren’t protecting the vulnerable—they’re auditioning for the Inquisition.

Elizabeth Harper 11/11/25 Elizabeth Harper 11/11/25

The Government is Lying to You and Trying to Kill You (or, I Tried to Write an Aubade but Wrote This Instead)

If the government doesn’t kill me
I’ll choke on my own bile
Alone, forsaken, reviled.

Don Hall 11/10/25 Don Hall 11/10/25

I Believe… [Absence]

...that absence may make the heart go fonder but it also makes the bone grow harder.

David Himmel 11/7/25 David Himmel 11/7/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 2, 2025

NSFW playlists are key for getting through the workday.

Don Hall 11/3/25 Don Hall 11/3/25

I Believe… [Bad Decision]

...that we’re all just one bad decision from oblivion.

David Himmel 10/31/25 David Himmel 10/31/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of October 26, 2025

Divorce, serious relationship breakups deal a rough hand. If you play your cards right, your ex can help you be a better version of you. The perk of which is that you’re a better partner in the next relationship. It’s that whole, learn-from-your-mistakes thing. The bonus perk is that it makes your ex wonder why you couldn’t have been this awesome when you were together and causes them to question their entire existence.

Don Hall 10/27/25 Don Hall 10/27/25

I Believe… [Neo-60 Minutes]

...that, if LiterateApe was suddenly put in charge of CBS, ’60 Minutes’ would features stories of divorce, masturbation, the death of radio, and farts.

Don Hall 10/26/25 Don Hall 10/26/25

REST IS RESISTANCE

The tendency for companies to burn employees to the ground isn’t accidental—it’s systemic, efficient, and, for the moment, wildly profitable.

David Himmel 10/24/25 David Himmel 10/24/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of October 19, 2025

Life/career coaches are former white collar, middle-management cubicle jockeys who would call AAA to replace a flat tire, but are like, “My car broke down on the side of the road. I’m a mechanic now!”