Posts Tagged ‘super power’
An important corollary on the two greatest super powers of all time
Last week I wrote that the two greatest super powers of all time are immortality and time travel, with teleportation coming in a possible, albeit distant third. I’d like to offer a corollary on this: 1. If you’re not interested in living forever, then I am willing to acknowledge that immortality might not be the…
Read MoreThe two best super powers of all time (one of them is not teleportation)
My wife, Deadspin, and many others argue that teleportation is the greatest of all the super powers. Teleportation would be an amazing super power to possess. I would love to be able to teleport from location to location instantly. I think it may be the third best super power. But objectively, the best super powers, in this…
Read MoreThe question all successful people can answer immediately: What’s your super power?
Serial entrepreneur Tina Roth Eisenberg says that all the most successful people she’s met have been able to answer this question immediately: What is your super power? From TIME: John Maeda, who led the MIT Media Lab and Rhode Island School of Design, responded with “curiosity.” Maria Popova, who curates the popular Brain Pickings blog…
Read MoreWorst super power ever
It turns out that I write about my super powers quite often. First there was a post about my actual super hero persona: Mr. Indestructible. I cannot be killed (having been brought back from death twice already) nor have I ever bruised, and I have not vomited since 1983, yet I tend to be hurt…
Read MoreMy most useless super power
In addition to my fairly useful super powers is one that is no less extraordinary but useless. Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night, for whatever reason, I can accurately state the time within fifteen minutes of the actual time, and oftentimes much more accurately than that. Every time, without exception. How…
Read MoreUtterly terrifying super power
If my wife had to choose one super power, it would be teleportation. I think this is a brilliant but selfish choice. If you get to choose a super power of any kind, the only morally acceptable choice in terms of the fate of the world is the ability to see the future. The ability…
Read MoreAnother fairly useless super power
My wife and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday. Following our wedding, I wrote about some of the more memorable moments and posted them on a blog that no long exists. In light of our anniversary, I’ve decided to re-post some of those wedding memories here as a means of preserving them as…
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