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 to make a […]
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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 like the kind […]
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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 say absolutely everything […]
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Sometimes Wrong, Never in Doubt: Why Action Beats Perfection Every Time
There’s a kind of unapologetic clarity in the phrase sometimes wrong, but never in doubt. It sounds reckless at first, maybe even arrogant, but there’s a strange nobility tucked inside […]
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The Enshittification of Everything: How the World Is Slowly Falling Apart
At first, it all felt like progress. Smooth interfaces. Same-day shipping. Affordable college loans. Doctors who smiled. Governments that promised. Food that tasted like it came from the earth rather […]
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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 someone’s name at […]
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The Surprisingly Undramatic Evolution of Money
For as long as people have lived together, they have traded things. A fish for a net. A chicken for some cloth. A promise for peace. Before the accountant’s ledger […]
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Invest Like You Care: A Beginner’s Guide to Looking Virtuous
It all started with an ad that popped up while I was reading an article about how the ultra-wealthy plan to survive climate change. I was halfway through a paragraph […]
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Helen’s Razor and the Tragedy of Idiotic Choices
I feel like there is a certain comfort in believing in malevolence. To think that some cabal of conniving overlords is plotting the slow erosion of our freedoms makes a […]
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When Walmart Mints Its Own Money
The phrase “too big to fail” once applied only to banks. Now, it may apply to retailers. When a company like Amazon or Walmart considers issuing its own currency, the […]