The one I think about most lately was around Cao Bang District (Vietnam) on a scooter, but maybe because it hasn’t been so long ago.
PROMPT: Road Trip
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PROMPT: Snack
Fried crickets.
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PROMPT: Crazy Business Idea
I had a restaurant idea I was going to call “Git It Yo Own Damned Self.” It would extend the Korean Hot Pot / BBQ concept in which one has to do one’s own cooking to include getting your own food from the kitchen and then bussing your own table and washing your own dishes. I realize one couldn’t charge as much, but in the US I think you could still collect 20 – 25% gratuities for the imaginary waitstaff to offset the lesser meal cost.The best thing would be responding to bad reviews with: “Don’t look at me, they did it their own damned selves!”
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PROMPT: Attached
Daily writing prompt
Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?
A rock named Steve. It went back to being a rock with no name.
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PROMPT: Mission
Shhh! It’s a secret. And the first rule of secret missions is you don’t talk about the secret mission.
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PROMPT: Long Life
Daily writing prompt
What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?
Living a long life while physically and mentally capable = great. Living a long life when you need advanced technology to achieve it and you’re just lying around like a slug without the ability hold a simple conversation = the worst circle of hell I can fathom.
One of the few books I’d recommend for everyone is Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal” which shows that our great pride in increasing human life expectancy is not all it’s cracked up to be because the average quality of life at death has dropped in the process. Essentially, people are completing the marathon because we are dragging quasi-corpses over the finish line rather than allowing them to fail gracefully.
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PROMPT: Differently
Everything except fully autonomic bodily functions could be done differently. That’s the nature of human creativity.
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PROMPT: Billboard
“Eyes Front, Jackass!“
Alternatively, “There’s a pit viper under your seat.”
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PROMPT: The Future or the Past
Daily writing prompt
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?
How would I know? When I’m doing either – by definition – my mind is wandering. Ergo, I have no metacognitive engagement. (i.e. I’m not timing or encoding— and certainly not recording— mental objects.)
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PROMPT: Greatest Gift
The capacity to decrease entropy in an isolated system.
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