A nation is more than a place on a map. It is a shared story, a common allegiance, a belief in something that binds its people together. But […]
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Short Essays Collection # 4
Humans Humans have always been shitty. Now we’re just shitty – at scale. What is Left As I continue to work my way through The Good Doctor, the […]
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Upstream Is Not Charity; When Doing Good Makes Financial Sense
For most of modern nonprofit history, we’ve raised money by telling stories of need. We show the hungry child. The overwhelmed mother. The struggling family. And we say: […]
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Swimming the Mississippi of Life
Sometimes I think living in this world is like floating down the Mississippi River. You didn’t choose the river. You didn’t choose the century. You didn’t choose the […]
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What If Your Neighborhood Became an Intentional Community?
What if nothing changed… and yet everything did? I don’t mean selling your house and moving to a commune where everyone owns exactly two spoons and a shared […]
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Comfort, Conviction, and the Line in the Sand
A couple of years ago, there was this idea of “quiet quitting.” It was a trend where people would show up for work but do the absolute minimum. […]
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The Party is Over
Since the end of World War II—and with the birth of the mass marketing industry—we have been slowly replacing connection with consumption. Our lives used to be about […]
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Why Small Communities are the Survival Strategy of the Future
This is an edited and recycled piece from the past. Enjoy. It doesn’t take an economist to see what’s happening. We all know that we’re in the beginning […]
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On Free Markets, Capital, and the Illusion of a Perfect System
I had a brief exchange with someone a few days ago about capitalism and free markets (then sussed it out further with ChatGPT). I found it very interesting […]
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Mutually One-Way
I started exploring this subject with the following short essay… Parasocial Relationships I heard someone mention this word recently, and I thought it was interesting. “Para,” in this […]