Tension Is The Key

When you are attracted to a woman and approach her with the aim of getting a date it is important that she understands clearly what your intention is. That is to say, she must recognise that you are  interested in her romantically, that you are hitting on her. There should be no confusion on this point …

Manipulation Versus Simply Being Social

Yesterday I did a stream with James Tusk where we discussed an article ‘Sales Funnels and High Value Men – The Rise of Strategic Dating’ about a new book called 138 Dates by Rebekah Campbell. In it Campbell encourages women to be strategic about their dating and to utilise ‘sales funnels’ and vetting in order …

What Could They POSSIBLY Have In Common?

I saw an amusing Tweet yesterday by someone called @kitten_beloved and I liked it so much that I immediately retweeted it. Kitten had herself retweeted a picture of Elon Musk with his girlfriend Grimes originally shared by someone called @gasstationbarbie who had written above it ‘what do they have in common like what do they …

Sometimes It Just Feels Good To Be Alive

I went to the kiosk just down from my apartment in Berlin to buy coffee. The owners – a Turkish family – know me since I’ve been coming in sporadically for six years. They know me only by sight since I don’t speak Turkish and my German is negligible. Today, the glamorous matriarch was behind …

debauchery or excellence

Should you chase debauchery or excellence?

Surprisingly for a man as grumpy as the economist, writer and YouTuber Aaron Clarey, his latest work, The Book Of Numbers, climaxes in a relatively upbeat manner. Yes, before we get there we have to wade through a bunch of elan-crushing statistics that conclusively prove that ‘the real ROI of the pursuit of women in …

Cosplay Totalitarianism

A report in The Times today highlights a study by the Dept of Health, Office for National Statistics and the Government Actuary’s Department which concludes that overall recession caused by lockdowns will be more harmful than the virus. While it states that there would have been 200k extra deaths in the three months to March, …

a eulogy for london

A Eulogy For London

As the Covid-tastrophe continues apace, having ripped all of 2020 and January 2021 to shreds, it must be apparent by now to everyone that we are living through a seismic historic period of history. Many of us have not directly experienced war, and most of my generation (in the west, at least) have been fortunate …