An exploration of the churn effect, how online and offline discussion creates motion without action, and why real change requires landing ideas. Threads explode. Names get mentioned. People defend cyberbullying. Others recount past experiences in painful detail. The outrage…
Voicenote – What I learned this year: Never say, “I don’t know what to do!”(Technical correction regarding the voice clip:We didn’t experience a hurricane. It was a landspout tornado.I could brush up on my meteorological literacy.The storms we experience here…
I sometimes revisit old essays and think, ‘What a load of shit.’ But this piece still retains the essence of what I felt a year ago, almost to the day. The Loneliness in December. Drop a mail if you want…
There was no orchestrated mayhem. No drums, bonfires, or initiation rituals. I joined a support group for males during a low point in my life. And the experience was great. Instead of getting my token for the ancestral sweat lodge,…
I have always been fascinated by non-Latin writing systems. Chinese characters, Japanese kanji, Arabic calligraphy, and Korean hangul feel dense and meaningful. Each symbol looks like a small object, not a thin line in a sequence.To me, Western letters feel…
I graduated from university with majors in English and psychology. This dude was geared to infuse the mundane thoughts and creative exploits of everyone “out there” with his newfound armamentarium of excellence. But first, before I could take my brilliant…
Corporal Rockjaw was unusually amicable that day. He told us that if anyone thought the mess hall food was shit, they should write their complaint on a list, add their force number and ID, and the matter would be escalated…
Some questions cut back. They keep returning, century after century, generation to generation. They will stalk us as long as we are human and still failing at being it. Even when the machines rule, the dead walk, the stars swallow…
I was in a crowd. We were being herded like sheep. Maybe not. Maybe sheep got better treatment. I remember military intake with a clarity I wish I had for the rest of my life. Funny how the moments that…
Leadership courses and seminars are absurd inventions of the corporate age. Seriously, for crying out loud, what exactly were these people doing before they signed up for a three-day “transformation” in a hotel ballroom? The brutal truth is that there…