Our Only Real Job in Life: Help When You Can, Do No Harm When You Can’t
The world is not on fire so much as it is smoldering in quiet places. If you look closely, you can see it. A slow curling of…
Social and Self-Help
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The Art of Not Getting Around to It
They say, “Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?” And by “they,” I assume they mean the same people who alphabetize their sock drawers…
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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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The Truth About Success: Why Hard Work and Sacrifice Still Matter
Nothing worth having ever comes easily. That phrase just sits there like a rock, weather-worn and unmoved, immune to trends and the latest self-help advice. You won’t…
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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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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…
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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…