A Primer on Speed-running, and Some Generic Tips

What’s all this speed-running malarkey about? As you may or may not know, back in the day (read: 9 months ago) I started to speed-run Super Meat Boy, a fast-paced platform game starring a walking cube of meat, on a mission to save his equally cubular, bandage-covered girlfriend from the evil (or maybe just misunderstood!) […]

Book Review: The Charisma Myth

Going in to The Charisma Myth (Olivia Fox Cabane, Penguin Books), I was naturally wary of the hype surrounding it. Many of the Amazon reviews claim the book’s advice will enrich your life, that it will make you more charismatic, or it will help you land that dream job. This sort of guarantee is slapped on to virtually […]