What is Real Merit?
My work is founded on the premise that the current system doesn’t reward merit; it rewards capital. And the two are not the same thing. A person…
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Short Essays Collection # 11
We Must All “Unself” Iris Murdoch coined the term “Unselfing”. A really beautiful idea. It’s not a dramatic renunciation of “self” so much as an exacting labor…
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“Tribe” by Sebastian Junger
Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a short but surprisingly heavy book about something most modern societies have lost: a deep sense of belonging. Junger’s central idea is…
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Humanity Is Unwilling to Change
Here’s a brief conversation between two characters in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. (I bring it up at the beginning of this essay because…
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Building a Collapse Community
There’s something that I say so often, I sound like a broken record: It’s better to be proactive rather than reactive. Sounds simple enough. Most people would…
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Community Fosters Accountability; and Agency
Not long after starting a community resource center, I began wondering if charity alone was really the best way to address the needs coming in week after…
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Prophets in the Screen
The Wachowskis (Lana and Lilly) have made a career out of showing us “realities” that we never knew existed – assuming that they do. The Matrix. V…
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From Content… To Quality
In the modern Internet-based economy, it’s inevitable that everything be paywalled. The economy is becoming more and more built on information, and the only way to monetize…