Here’s a thought experiment that, it being the very depths of the summer months might make sense on a level that resonates with some of you. Imagine you’re 10 years old again. And imagine that every day, the ice cream truck came through your town by a very specific route…

Gather round ye kind folk and I’ll weave you a tale told by our forbears: a story so incredible and incredibly recent that you might be wondering what’s in those pills your therapist has been prescribing. Way back in 2013, a man with the implausible name of Eddy Snowman (probably…

Incels (involuntary celibates, or people who can’t get laid despite an ostensible interest) are now painted with the broadest of brushes after one person who called themselves incel (Elliot Rodger) went on a killing spree. We might imagine a more charitable view of these folks, except that by modern victim…

Interviewing is not easy, intuitive or even remotely normal. Here’s a quick checklist to read right BEFORE you go into your interview. Good luck! Congratulations on getting an interview. You probably already realize that you are in a privileged space. Many people in similar circumstances have not received an email back, let alone an interview request. It would be a real shame if you blew the interview…

The worst pandemic in a century is still ongoing. Its origin is still not completely understood by the public. People are still dying. The global economy is on the brink of a major collapse. There’s a lot at stake! But we’re not completely in the dark. Consider this simple exercise: …

Rule 1 of effective leadership: never EVER give an order you can’t or won’t enforce. In 2015, John Kerry journeyed to war-torn Iraq, which was facing a full-blown ISIS-crisis thanks to the bungling of post-war efforts coming from everyone in American foreign policy. If you were cynical or paying attention, you might imagine that such bungling actually was on purpose, in service of the forever…

Getting a great job has always been difficult, but our friend COVID-19 just made it much harder. If you’re serious about cracking into a long-term career or resuming your career, now is NOT the time for half-measures. It’s not time for the same old playbook. If you think posting once…

If you’ve been on Medium for any period of time, you’ve probably been sucked in by one of Umair Haque’s tabloid headlines. It’s all fire and brimstone. America is on fire. Your water is poison. The trees are fascist. Your neighbor who goes to church during Covid is a war…

Thought experiment: If you had to come up with a curriculum that would result in a generation of obedient, uncritical, rule following zombies, what would it look like? Maybe… 4–6 hours of zoom calls a day where the main topic is almost always “how to behave on a zoom call.”…