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What Are Men’s Biggest Obstacles to Romance?

May 16, 2017 by Nick Leave a Comment

A recent comment of mine was featured in a new post at Chateau Heartiste. My comment was in reply to another commenter who passed on the opinion that game was a matter of converting “maybe” girls (ambivalent towards you) into “yes” girls (attracted from the start), and that simply meeting […]

Filed Under: Culture, Game, Lifestyle, Self-Improvement

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The 8,000 Mile Sex Journey

January 9, 2017 by Nick Leave a Comment

Pectoral sandpipers remind us that reproducing is a brutal competition, tiring too: You fly more than 100 miles for love. You get rejected. You fly another 100 miles. Another rejection. And another. That’s the high-flying but futile sex life of the male pectoral sandpiper looking for love in northernmost Alaska, according […]

Filed Under: Culture, Game, History, Lifestyle, Podcasts, Self-Improvement

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Game Played Me

June 9, 2015 by Nick 10 Comments

I’ve written about game for nearly three years since first discovering blogs related to pickup and other aspects of male-female interactions. Reflecting on the time I’ve invested in approaching women, going on dates and improving myself in various ways to increase my attractiveness to the opposite sex (thousands of hours […]

Filed Under: Culture, Game, Lifestyle, Self-Improvement

Podcast #2: Thoughts on Game and PUAs

May 18, 2015 by Nick Leave a Comment

In my second podcast I discuss game, pickup artists (PUAs) and pursuing what you want with women. I got a lot of good information from PUA products when I first decided to finally learn how to be good with women and get this part of my life “handled”. At the […]

Filed Under: Game, Lifestyle, Podcasts, Self-Improvement

Podcast #1: Overcoming Approach Anxiety

May 8, 2015 by Nick 2 Comments

In my inaugural podcast I discuss approach anxiety and how I overcame it. I started by asking women indirect questions like asking for directions or when the metro stopped running. After this I went through several years of PUA-style game where I used routine-based approaches to meet women. Lately, inspired […]

Filed Under: Game, Lifestyle, Podcasts, Self-Improvement

Meet Women Head On

April 21, 2015 by Nick Leave a Comment

In the past few weeks I’ve started to take a real hard and critical look at how I meet women. I wasn’t satisfied with the number and caliber of women that I was meeting and dating and decided I needed to make dramatic changes. Be a player not a pickup […]

Filed Under: Game, Self-Improvement

Apple Watch, a Cutting Edge Rejection Buffer?

April 16, 2015 by Nick 1 Comment

The excitement for Cupertino’s latest product has been building and reviews of the Apple Watch are coming in. One of the writers whose opinion on tech I respect is John Gruber of Daring Fireball. Gruber’s take on the Apple Watch was interesting to me, and I appreciate the fact that he highlighted […]

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Challenges of Independent Living

March 19, 2015 by Nick Leave a Comment

In my last post I wrote about the benefits of independent living. Though things are much better for me now, there are tradeoffs and new challenges to face when you reconfigure your lifestyle towards freedom. Diet Last time I mentioned that a poor diet was a phase I went through when I […]

Filed Under: Game, Lifestyle, Poland, Self-Improvement, Travel

The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi

February 26, 2015 by Nick 1 Comment

Over three years ago I was introduced to the manosphere through Roosh. Shortly thereafter I became familiar with a number of writers who covered a broad range of topics important to men, including game, style, weight lifting, nutrition with the overarching theme of taking the “Red Pill”, an analogy from […]

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New Blogroll Links

February 15, 2015 by Nick 1 Comment

I want to bring to your attention two new links in my blogroll: Solo Ventures and Thomas D Daygame I met these guys through my blog and daygame, respectively. Solo writes about business and lifestyle in a rapid-fire, creative way, while Thomas relates the adventures and struggles of his daygame […]

Filed Under: Game, Lifestyle, Money, Poland, Self-Improvement

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