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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.
“I found Plan B in my wife’s purse”
So, about a month ago, my wife told me that the spark isn’t there for her anymore, and she assured me that there isn’t anyone else. We’ve been going out on dates and trying to recapture the spark, and for the most part, it’s been going okay. But she’s been hot and cold the past few days, and when I was walking to the kitchen, I saw her on her phone using what appeared to be a dating app.
“I blew $9,600 at a strip club in one night and I can’t stop thinking about it”
I’m 25 and a few weeks ago I made the dumbest decision of my life. I went out drinking, ended up at a strip club, and somehow let myself get talked into using my credit card while I was pretty drunk. I signed everything. The total came out to $9,600. Just typing that makes me want to puke.
It’s a lot of money. It doesn’t completely ruin me, but it was coming from money I’d been saving for a house. I had worked hard to build it up and in one night I torched a huge chunk of it. I feel so stupid. I keep replaying it over and over in my head. I don’t even know what I was thinking. It’s like I snapped for a night and now I’m sitting here dealing with the fallout.
Your Self-Help Addiction Is Just Procrastination in Disguise
Here’s a hard truth that might sting a little: reading self-help books won’t fix your life.
It’s wild how easy it is to convince yourself that you’re making progress when really, you’re just binging content like it’s the latest Netflix drama. You start with one book to “level up,” then suddenly it’s six months later, and you’ve underlined 900 quotes but haven’t taken a single action that actually changed your life.
Linkage
5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes – Ned Hardy
If you have back pain, consider this incredible piece of gym equipment because it decompresses the spine, strengthens your glutes and lower back – Amazon
L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie – WSJ
Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan’s first female prime minister – BBC
40 Years Ago, One Sci-Fi Rail-Shooter Was Weirder Than You Can Imagine – Inverse
Emerging climbing star Balin Miller, 23, dies in fall from El Capitan – The Guardian
The Internet Was on One This Week — Here Are 26 Memes to Prove It – Ned Hardy
Best indoor slippers. They are super comfortable, cozy and super durable – Amazon
The Top 7 Things You Need To Know Before Buying a House – Linkiest
Want a Second Passport? These 13 Countries Let You Buy Citizenship – Visual Capitalist
A simple word choice can be the difference between people accepting or rejecting your apology – Upworthy
Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop – Archive.ph
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Nina Simone – NYT
7 Little Known People Who Changed the World – Linkiest
The Dumping Grounds
Inside the Life of a High-Earning Internet Banker
I work in a corner of Wall Street that most people only see in headlines—the Internet and Interactive Entertainment group of a major bank. We’re the people who sit behind the big “XYZ dot com merges with ABC” stories. When you hear that a streaming service is swallowing a rival or that a video game publisher is issuing billions in new bonds, it’s likely someone like me is in the background, building models, arranging financing, and whispering to CEOs about what’s possible.
Maybe Everything Is Going to Shit (Or Maybe That’s Just What Getting Older Feels Like)
There’s a moment and I don’t know exactly when it happens, maybe it’s 32, maybe it’s 44 — when you stop assuming the future will be better than the past. You stop thinking the world is a machine that refines itself. Instead, you start noticing the rust.
And it’s not that things have objectively gotten worse. Not always. It’s that your perception of everything — politics, culture, the people at your grocery store — has been quietly rewired while you weren’t paying attention. You go from assuming things will eventually make sense to realizing that nonsense might be the default setting.
Every Person You Meet Has Lived an Entire Life Before That Moment
It’s such a simple sentence that you almost overlook it. The kind of sentence that belongs in the corner of a page or whispered over coffee. Every person you meet has lived an entire life before that moment. It sounds obvious. It sounds like something your therapist might nod toward before sitting back in their chair. It sounds like something you’d find taped to a fridge in a halfway house or the caption under a stranger’s face in a yearbook you’re not supposed to be reading.
And yet.
It holds a kind of quiet gravity that grows heavier the longer you stare at it.
Linkage
A Look At The Past. At The Way Things Used To Be – Ned Hardy
The Hype is Real! If you’ve got pets, kids, or just a tendency to spill stuff, this cleaner is a total game-changer that makes even the nastiest stains disappear like magic. – Amazon
Scientists Reconstruct a Million-Year-Old Skull and Suggest It Could Rewrite Our Timeline of Human Evolution – Smithsonian Magazine
U.S. to Provide Ukraine With Intelligence for Missile Strikes Deep Inside Russia – WSJ
Game of the Year 2025 predictions: The front-runners and challengers to come – Polygon
We Finally Have Free Anti-Robocall Tools That Work – NYT
Millionaire Wisdom: How to Grow Net Worth – ESI Money
25 Core Memories Every 90s Kid Still Holds Onto – Ned Hardy
This is a solid purchase if you like to listen to podcasts or music while showering – Amazon
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Generates Realistic Videos of People Shoplifting – Futurism
Sean Combs, in custody for a year, to face sentencing on split verdict – NPR
Hegseth announces troops in combat jobs have to meet highest male physical standards – Task & Purpose
Ranked: The World’s Most Innovative Countries in 2025 – Visual Capitalist
We shouldn’t let kids be friends with ChatGPT – Archive.ph
Groundbreaking Firsts Of Major Medical Procedures And Surgeries – Linkiest