And finally: Our hound dog Faithful is just eating the SHIT out of these things! Every day. Her breath smells exactly like you'd expect after eating something that's been underground for 7 to 17 years. But I like to think of Faithful as an alien-fighting force who won’t go

And c'mon...those bright red, beady little eyes?

And then...that incessant, ear-splitting screeching. We humans call it their "mating call". But if you were underground for 7 to 17 years, would you really need a mating call to know it's time to get busy? So...clearly they're just uploading all the data they’ve collected the

Oh, and then after 7 or 17 years, they all just magically know when it’s time to simultaneously crawl out of their subterranean lair and start doing their thing? Hmm…it’s almost as if they were…I don’t know…remotely commanded to wake up by their alien overlords? We humans

I’ll tell you exactly what they’re doing down there for so long. They’re listening. Monitoring. Probing our human vulnerabilities. Absorbing our conversations. And ALL the radio waves. And ALL the cell phone conversations. And ALL the unbearably shitty Bravo TV shows.

First…OK, so these creepy little aliens literally just hang out underground for anywhere from 7 to 17 years? What are they DOING down there for so long?

Now I’m no conspiracy theorist. But...these cicadas! It's time we acknowledge the possibility (ahem…likelihood) that Cicadas are highly-intelligent extraterrestrial life forms. Sent to earth thousands of years ago to monitor the human race. Let's examine the facts:

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” — Amos Tversky via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter ( https://t.co/Q7U2qhK4vS) from @tferriss

Learned today there is a Japanese term, Tsundoku, for this practice of acquiring books but letting them accumulate in the home without reading them. HT to @tferriss for calling this out during his wide-ranging podcast interview with @SamCorcos.

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” — Maya Angelou via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter ( https://t.co/Q7U2qhK4vS) from @tferriss

Know your target audience…

For some reason I’m always surprised (and delighted) when a flight departs in a thunderstorm, but then it’s just pure sunshine above the clouds.

I used to think personal fitness training/coaching could only be effective in person. But after hiring several in-person personal trainers at various stages of my life - with marginal success at best - I recently started working with a virtual health & wellness coach who lives

So how psyched is Elon Bezos that @TheMorningShow cast Jon Hamm to play them in Season 3?

“Long distance runner, what you standin’ there for? Get up, get out, get out the door.” - The Grateful Dead The opening line from the 1978 Grateful Dead song “Fire on the Mountain” inspired me to start training for my first marathon. Seriously. The song was playing in the

Speaking of books, this Musk biography is really going to be something…that lays on my bookshelf and collects dust.

Even though they were destroying our back yard, I felt some remorse for the three moles we trapped this week. But then, I realized we likely saved dozens of grubs’ lives. Maybe hundreds. And I felt better. Perspective…

If someone paid me $1 for every unread book in my home that I purchased with the sincere intention of reading it, like, the very next week...I'd have $97. I just counted them. Here's to making more time for reading. It's fundamental!

I learned 3 lessons from this story: 1. Never stop searching! 2. Sometimes, it does pay to stop and consider the little things you normally might just be tempted to ignore. 3. “Finders Keepers” … except when it comes to diamond engagement rings! How about you?

Then suddenly, “J” smiled, slowly looked up at Julie and then exclaimed “This is the original diamond engagement ring my husband gave me more than 50 years ago. It’s been lost for the last 25 years! And you found it!!!”