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Why I started listening to music again
I love music. Famously addicted to shoegazing and dreampop. Then—I stopped. Here’s why I’m bringing it back.
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Our Brains Are Broken
Modern society has broken our brains through distraction and anxiety. So the solution requires us to change society.
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Destroying everything over a word
We often seem eager to blame someone for the situation we’re in. Then we act as if we have no control over our response.
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Blowing off steam or wanting something?
Leaders can’t always tell when we’re venting or asking them to do something about it. Sometimes we’re not sure ourselves.
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When we can’t trust the process
Everything in life has a process. But when some decide a process can’t be trusted, we no longer have a process.
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When reality isn’t extreme
Most of the time the stuff we’re arguing about really is what we’re arguing about. It’s easy to play it out, to slide down that slippery slope, take it all the way to the inevitable conclusion. And stake a claim out there. For them. That what they’re saying is so unbelievably ridiculous. To assume we…
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Apples and Oranges – or when a swim cap is just a swim cap
We’re familiar with the phrase “comparing apples and oranges”. The problem with the phrase is that most of the time we aren’t trying to classify all the apples or all the oranges: we’re trying to classify fruit. Which means we think the difference between them doesn’t matter. But when “fruit” is defined as “red”, crisp…
