What Jealousy Does To You
Your successes don’t count. The only thing you feel is the absent space that separates you from your ambition.
About Writing
It’s supposed to evoke, to stir, to resonate inside us. And if it doesn’t, we’re not at fault: the writing is.
The Real Reason Why Teens Aren’t Reading Like They Used To
This new generation isn’t against reading: they’re against the forced formality and smugness reflected in our reading society.
Weakness And Change
You need to face yourself with the mathematical, honest cruelty that the world has imposed. You must take inventory. It’s something most people avoid. That’s because a real reckoning of the self is ugly.
How To Talk About Politics
We look at politics as a pop-culture snarkfest. We reward those we hate most with disproportionate attention. Meanwhile, otherwise reasonable candidates are buried by the attention-grabbing schlock of others.
The Importance Of Hobbies In Your Quest For Happiness
In a society that equates ambition increasingly with money or worldly success, it can be thrilling and gratifying to transfer the very human urge to succeed to a more flexible medium.
When More Is Less
The greatest lie, in our maximized world, is that more is more or that better is truly better.
A Letter To My Unborn Kids
If I hold you to these standards more than I hold them to myself, it’s because it’s easier to love someone else than it is to love yourself.
The Gourmet Millennial
When you have nothing, no future or prospects or present, you have to find something to anchor you to the world.
The Upside Of Screen Addiction
This is about how things are better than they seem.