Category: Personal growth

Running is orders of magnitude better than many things I find awesome. I just chose sex as the comparison because sex is the quintessential point of reference when judging the awesomeness of human...Read More →

Parenting brings such joy sometimes the euphoria makes you want to explode into a million sparkles. Other times, though, the pain’s so great you’d like the whole world to collapse into a dark hole. You...Read More →

If like me, you grew up with substantial privilege, you don’t go around bragging about it, am I right? That would be in bad taste. It also wouldn't reflect well on you that there was almost NO statistical...Read More →

Do you want 2021 to be the best year possible? I sure do. That’s why I’ve been pondering 2020 like crazy, to understand what lessons it taught me. This year brought me, you, and practically every human...Read More →

The tricky problem of pronouncing vowels just right There are at least three words every native Spanish speaker should avoid saying in English: focus, sheet and beach. Focus (f*ck us) I know several...Read More →

Society has come up with a generally accepted recipe for happiness. The formula includes having money (the more the better), beauty, fame, popular kids who go to college (the more prestigious the better),...Read More →