Don’t Settle: Why We Must Chase Perfection to Build a Better World
There’s a tragedy in how mindlessly the days pass now. We get up. We check our phones. We pour our coffee. We trudge off to work, to…
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It Can’t Go On Forever (And Other Encouraging Thoughts)
There’s something reassuring about Stein’s Law, which says, quite simply, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” It’s the sort of logic that should be…
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Level the Playing Field, Not the Players
When I was ten, I lost the spelling bee to a kid named Jeremy, who once stapled his own finger to a vocabulary worksheet. He wasn’t trying…
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Why Context Is Everything ; And What Happens When We Ignore It
The first time I heard the phrase; text without context is pretext, I thought someone was scolding me for plagiarizing a Bible verse on Instagram. It sounded…
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A Man of Words and Not of Deeds
There was a man I knew; let’s call him Craig, although his name was something less memorable, like Todd or Phil, who had an astonishing ability to…
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A Time for Everything and Nothing at All
The Book of Ecclesiastes does not preach so much as it sighs. It does not command but contemplates. You can almost hear the shuffle of sandals on…
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Why Random Acts of Kindness Still Matter in a Selfish World
We are not, most of us, in the habit of expecting kindness. Not from strangers, not without motive, and certainly not without a price. The world trains…
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Strong Men, Weak Men, and the Hamster Wheel of History
There are moments in life that make you feel like a genius. For most people, it’s when they successfully parallel park on the first try or remember…
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Lies for the Weak, Truth for the Brave
“To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.” That was Marcus Aurelius, by the way, who managed…
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The Big Cosmic Joke and Other Light Reading
I first suspected that existence was absurd while eating a corn dog at the Iowa State Fair. It wasn’t the corn dog itself, though that could be…