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HIDING IN PLAIN ‘SITE’! Meaning of Life Found Within Unknown Website’s Terms & Conditions — Now With REAL News

Larry Nocella
2 min readDec 10, 2020

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The radical transformation of Daniel Pintosh began with a silly wager.

“We were joking around,” said his colleagues at Diversified Marketing. “We made a bet that none of us could read through a website’s Terms and Conditions.”

“It was an honor system contest, good for a laugh,” another said. “The game was, pick any website. Then read the entire Terms & Conditions, including the privacy policy. Word for word.”

“Dan was always competitive. He was the last to leave the office that night. He said, ‘I am going to do it.’”

The next morning, Pintosh’s co-workers found him still in the office. He was barefoot and wearing a black robe.

“He looked like a monk,” his co-workers said. “He did that ‘Namaste’ thing, bowing with his hands pressed together. Then he said, ‘I found the secrets to life. If you only knew.’ And he was beaming. You could tell he really meant it.”

Others in his department agreed. “The peace was just radiating off him. I started to cry. I mean, there are things I want in life, but the internal, indestructible joy he had. That’s everything. He had it. You could feel it.”

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Larry Nocella
Larry Nocella

Written by Larry Nocella

Author. Mental Models. Future-thinking. A.I. Speculative Fiction. Digital Marketing. Software Dev. It's all fascinating to me. Visit LarryNocella.com.

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