The inability to achieve our dreams may be structural. We can no longer judge what is “normal”. We live most of our lives on a sleep deficit, operating on sub-par consciousness, our memories left half-sorted, our traumas half-healed. Is all the vitriol we see on social issues a process and…

You don’t want to be rich — here’s what I learned after 15 years with the rich and famous — This article is in part a response to the article Rise of the New Servant Class. Many of us are sold on the dream we’ll be rich one day or at the least we’ll carve out a piece of the resources we feel only the rich have. This is not…

We bring our race legacy with us. Remembering this may be the key to ending racism — Modern race discussions often revolve around the inability of either party to see or relate to the experiences of the other. We resemble two people on different planes arguing over a simple geometric shape. One sees a circle while the other sees a triangle. Neither sees the cone. Frustration and…

We mock the excess of Marie Antoinette even as we strive to emulate — to do so, we make servants of our own — We’re bigger than we ever dreamed Watching the plethora of Elizabethan dramas, the latest Jane Austen iteration, Downton Abbey or Marie Antoinette, we admire how democratic we’ve become. We congratulate ourselves on the fall of such a vile system where the pampered few could subjugate a whole house full of servants. …

I say “like” a man, because with these five easy steps even women and children can do it. It just takes planning, the right tools, and a little alone time. When I met my wife, she had a bigger toolbox than me. She’d lived alone for a year. She’d solved…

Is the world out of control? Is your faith in humanity failing? There is a third way, but it won’t be easy. — I get restless. I find myself wondering how to fix the world’s problems, so I go searching for answers. It never takes long to find them. In almost every search, someone already figured it out, found the solution, even wrote whole books about what could be done. …

Feminist ideology radically altered society for the better, but it brought unforeseeable consequences. We’re feeling these affects in the way we feed our children and ourselves, day care, and infertility. It’s time for a collective re-think. — How many of you will find this familiar? A few months after you were born into an average family, your parents went back to work. Because your grandparents lived far away, they enrolled you in day care. Mom worked in an open plan office or a factory floor with no…

With all the fad diets and body stigma around fat, how much control do we really have and what can we do to change? — Why are you fat? You know that diet and exercise are the keys to weight maintenance, but there are reasons this simple recipe is so hard to follow. To understand why we’re still fat, even after trying so hard, we need to understand what happens beyond our direct control. In a moment, you’ll see…

We asked the machines to learn from us, and it produced cosmic horror. What does that say about us? As a content creator, I’m delighted by AI. I have access to limitless art without copyright. I can create eye-catching images for my Medium posts, beautiful music to play behind my…