Living
Life is hard. And full. And awesome. Live it.
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Trolling or Debating?
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3 min read
Trolling isn’t the same thing as debating. But we feel like we have to honor the troll’s arguments as valid. But we don’t.
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Naomi Osaka withdrew from the 2021 French Open. She isn’t injured. There is no family emergency. It is simply that she wouldn’t make herself available to the media. Organizers for the French Open fined her. Then threatened to expel her. In a world obsessed with motives for dissent, the simple fact that any player would…
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Sometimes a Joke Is Timeless
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3 min read
When Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, he was bringing us back from an extreme position. It is also really important to notice what that position is in extreme contrast to. I’m not into Freud, but anyone who has taken a psychology class knows why this phrase exists. Precisely because Freud…
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Rushing the Tipping Point
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4 min read
It’s true. We all want to be first. We do not want to be last. There is a Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). And certainly there is a sense of being tired of doing what we’re doing. That’s four reasons why we are “opening” before the tipping point has actually arrived. Of course, there isn’t…
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Please stop saying “The Science”
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2 min read
When your child asks why she should brush her teeth, do we ever simply say “because the science says to”? Of course not. That’s ridiculous. While your kid is really trying to get out of brushing her teeth, she is also doing so because she doesn’t have any context for oral health. She hasn’t seen…
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Cascading Responsibility
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3 min read
After the virus itself, the most devastating contagion was a particular kind of leadership failure: not taking our responsibility.