Category: Personal growth

Have you ever encouraged someone to embrace technology and then regretted it? Me, I’m starting to lament pushing my mom to up her game. Look, she’s 79, and as bright and energetic as anyone half her...Read More →

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 →