Short Essays Collection # 6
“When the dream becomes material rather than moral, it inevitably becomes empty.” Create Who You Are Many philosophers read The Great Gatsby as an existential novel because…
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Short Essays Collection # 5
Enlightenment One of my favorite quotes on the subject of enlightenment comes from the movie The Razor’s Edge (Bill Murray): “It’s easy to be a holy man on a…
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The Architecture of the Cage: How Belonging Became a Transaction
This is a compilation of four essays with similar threads. They’ve been woven together into a single narrative that is both interesting and possibly concerning. Definitely worth…
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How to Really Change the World
I’ve been having a conversation on Substack about social movements and how change actually happens. And I realized that what I’ve been doing instinctively has a solid foundation in…
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Our Future Domain
Small players don’t win by trying to out-scale the giants. That game’s already decided. The advantage, for the 99%, is shifting upstream — earlier in the chain,…
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From “Chad” to “Slop”; How Society Has Evolved
Each year, the American Dialect Society chooses one word to represent the Zeitgeist of that year. If you line the words up and look at them, they…
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The Nation Without a Land
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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…