esn't work as well as it could.

But what if you go the opposite way? Suppose you complimented Biden for the fact that drilling is at an all-time high. That might actually work because remember if you're a Republican you don't have to disagree with everything the other side does. Every now and then there's going to be something you agree with. So imagine Trump saying you know I criticize you a lot President Biden but one thing I won't is that the drilling has reached an all-time high even higher than when I was president. Now if I'm reelected it's going to go way up from where Biden is so it's going to be way higher still if I'm president. But I have to give you credit. You talked a good game about the climate but then you drilled like hell. That's kind of a kill shot right?

So the difference between Biden and me is that apparently Biden wants to drill like crazy too. The difference is it's the opposite of what his base wants him to do. His base is asking him to stop and he's going nuts drilling. I'm telling you I want to drill more too and I'm very happy that we're having this much oil. I have no complaints about the oil level except that I'm sure I can get it much higher and it should be because price is still too high and we still should be far far more competitive and climate change is under control etc. So it's an opening for the Republicans.

Creativity and genius. So Billy Oppenheimer had this post and I guess there's some science showing that one thing that according to some book by somebody named Dr. Nancy and John, they did some brain imaging studies on creative people and talked about other creative people like Einstein and da Vinci. And one thing that the claim is they all had in common was lots of free time to do nothing but think during the day.

So Einstein famously got in his little boat that didn't have a motor and he would just go out in a lake somewhere and he'd just be gone for hours with just him in a boat and they'd come back with some new theory. Apparently other creative people do the same thing. Now I just want to pile on and say that I also do that and so if you don't do that and you're trying to be more creative you probably should.

So you probably ask me what's the deal with my man cave? Like why am I always in my garage you know like a weird little environment that I built? Well the man cave is all about that. When I go to the man cave that's not work so I turn off all of work and it helps to have a different environment. If you're trying to just think in your office like where I am right now sitting at my office desk it doesn't work because I get drawn into work thoughts. I have to physically remove myself. So I've built a place in my house where I don't think about work. I only think about what's fun and wherever my brain wants to go.

Most of my best ideas came out of not thinking about anything in particular and it just boop something pops into your head. I also like to take long walks and because I'm a creative person I'm always multitasking when I'm exercising. So if I'm lifting weights or taking long walks or whatever I'm doing my mind is in creative mode and I just let it go where it goes and it comes up with good stuff.

So if you're not doing that I recommend it. You should find some excuse that takes you away from your digital devices and gives you I think at least half an hour but an hour a day would be better of just unstructured thoughts. Just let yourself not think about your chores, not think about your day, not think about your problems. Just let your brain go wherever it's going. See how you feel. You might like it. It's one of my secrets for happiness. But I have a sort of an unnaturally active creative part of my brain so it might not apply to everybody.

Google has settled a $5 billion lawsuit. Apparently they were tracking the incognito mode users. Wait what? Yes that's right. You know how when you set your browser to incognito mode the entire point of that is that you can't be. But they were tracking. Are you surprised?