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Author: Theodore Lee

Theodore Lee is the editor of Caveman Circus. He strives for self-improvement in all areas of his life, except his candy consumption, where he remains a champion gummy worm enthusiast. When not writing about mindfulness or living in integrity,  you can find him hiding giant bags of sour patch kids under the bed.
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21 Fascinating Photos That Deserve a Closer Look – Ned Hardy

The best smart home hub you can buy—it lets you control and automate all your smart home devices in one place, no matter what brand they are. – Amazon

Life After Death? – Pudding

These Influencers Are on a Mission to Stop People From Paying Medical Bills – WSJ

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently – The Marginalian

Drunk guy hits an innocent bystander and pays the price – Reddit

Ragebaiting an AI interviewer – Reddit

Tesla Roadster 2.0 Now Set to Launch on October 15 – MotorTrend

31 History Memes That Explain History Better Than Your Textbook – Ned Hardy

If you want a safe and reliable tool to get your manscapping down there in order, this is the one – Amazon

Trump promises $100 checks for 20 million seniors for Medicare – Archive.ph

The Social Reckoning Review: Aaron Sorkin Goes Scorched Earth on Facebook – Consequence

Police release bodycam of 6-year-old who shot teacher after being sealed by the courts for 3.5 years. The child immediately swears and drops the N word at teachers and officers – Reddit

OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field already in shock – Scientific American

The Best First-Class Airline Cabins in the World – Afar

Life Experiences

I Worked Asset Protection at a Major Retailer for 7 Years. Here’s What It Was Really Like

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I worked in Asset Protection for a major big-box retailer for seven years. I spent my first two years in an entry-level position and the next five as a team leader.

I left the company a few years ago for a completely different career, but whenever people find out what I used to do, they have questions.

Usually they want to know about shoplifters.

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What Happens When Nobody Can Afford a House Anymore?

housing prices

There’s a certain fantasy floating around among frustrated would-be homeowners: eventually, something has to break.

Home prices can’t keep climbing while ordinary people become less and less able to afford them. At some point sellers will run out of buyers, prices will collapse, and everyone who patiently waited on the sidelines will finally swoop in and buy a house at a reasonable price.

It’s an understandable theory.

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Life Experiences

What Nobody Prepared Me for About Visiting Cairo

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I had wanted to visit Egypt for years.

The pyramids, the Egyptian Museum, Islamic Cairo, the Nile—there are certain places you grow up seeing in books and documentaries so often that they almost stop feeling real. Egypt was one of those places for me. I knew Cairo wasn’t going to be Paris. I wasn’t expecting clean sidewalks, orderly traffic, or some sanitized tourist experience. If anything, the chaos was part of what I was looking forward to.

What I wasn’t prepared for was how exhausting it would be to simply exist there as a tourist.

It started almost immediately.

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Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Data Centers? – Slate

10 Of The Best Life Pro Tips You’re Probably Not Using (But Should Be) – Ned Hardy

Insane deal on these noise canceling headphones right now! – Amazon

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days – The Drive

Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You – Time

How The Beatles made ‘Rubber Soul’ and broke up with their past – NPR

Emotionally intelligent people use 3 short phrases to stop getting defensive and strengthen their relationships – Fast Company

7 Best U.S. Accommodations for Stargazing—and Yes, I’ve Stayed at All of Them – Outside Online

‘The spine just wants to move’: How to strengthen your neck – Archive.ph

27 Memes Every Introvert Will Feel Deep in Their Soul – Ned Hardy

By far, the best tool to clean a grill. – Amazon

His girlfriend saw that the reporter was a baddie, so she had to come guard her territory – Reddit

Inside the Subreddit Where Men Share Their Dinners—And Their Most Intimate Feelings – Archive.ph

Here are the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards – NPR

Christa Pike is awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyer says – NBC News

Indian Defence forces using shoulder launched Thermobaric round to Eliminate a terrorist holing up inside a house after they are informed the last hostage has been killed. – Reddit

Life Advice

The Harsh Truth About Retirement

There’s a belief out there that’s as widespread as it is wrong: when you hit a certain age—let’s say 65—you get to retire. Just like that. You’ve worked hard, punched the clock, raised a family, and now society hands you your retirement package. That’s the fantasy. But here’s the reality: retirement doesn’t care about your age. You don’t get to retire because you’ve hit some magical number on the calendar. You get to retire when you’ve saved enough to make it happen.

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Advice Column

“A friend offer me a investment opportunity at 15% annually, is it too good to be true?”

He was my coworker. I know him at work for years. It is unlikely he take money and run away. He ask me a loan to scale up his business, promised to pay 15% annually.

He said there is legit loan paperwork. His work is in manufactures industry, maybe B2B. He said he his business don’t depend on number of customer available.

I don’t know. I am a salary man. I know nothing about business and investment. I haven’t ask him into the detail yet. I know nothing about this type of business.

He seem confident, but I feel the 15% is so unlikely that will come with (hidden) risk. Maybe my friend is also a victim of another scam, or he just overconfident.

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Life Experiences

What It’s Really Like to Be $500,000 in Consumer Debt

Being $500,000 in consumer debt doesn’t just change your finances—it changes how you see yourself, how you sleep, and how you relate to the world. People look at a number like that and think, “How does that even happen?” but I promise you, it never feels like a single, giant leap. It’s a thousand small steps, a thousand moments of “I’ll pay it off later” and “Why wait, life is short.”

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