Reading Time: 6 minutes Employment in Your Mid-20’s Hi. I’m 25 years old. I’ve yet to maintain a job for more than a year since college, and here’s my story. Neatly packaged as default hardware in our enlightened 18-year-old brains, the false promise of what employment after higher education will bring is nearly guaranteed …
Reading Time: 5 minutes White, rye, flat, banana, corn, cakes, croissants, donuts, ciabatta, garlic, muffins, multi-grain, and while we’re at it what about, bagels, biscuits, breadsticks, baguettes, and brioche. It’s all bread, well…sorta-kinda. And if you didn’t know, we eat a lot of it (somewhere around 53lbs per year). Let’s play a nonsensical game …
Reading Time: 4 minutes *Personal and company names redacted* Dear Applicant, We regret to inform you that we have decided to move forward with other candidates. Best of luck, -AUTOMATED SYSTEM Generic, impersonal, cut and dry. An email informing you that you are no longer in the running for a job but also forgoing …
Reading Time: 13 minutes Positioning The competence required to read a room has never been a markedly polished skill for me. Rather than focusing on the environment between four walls, my brain typically falls into default mode somewhere between unnecessarily dissecting dozens of past events and catastrophizing incoherent future scenarios, creating a fun little …
Reading Time: 19 minutes If you made it here without reading Primitive Politics, Pt. I – I strongly encourage you to do so. Our Path to Talking Parrots When mass broadcast radio came around in the 1920’s, the goal of any media platform ever since has been fairly straightforward. Relay information while grabbing the …
Reading Time: 10 minutes *An opinion piece from someone with no formal political education* I support and fully welcome disagreement. Our Current Reality: “Well if you are wanting to move away and you enjoy California so much you should look into living there at some point!” “Oh there’s no way I could do that, …
Reading Time: 8 minutes May 16 · 9 min read “oh man, I can’t wait to work from home – this is going to be GREAT.” 7:00am: *wake up* 7:05am: *check phone/calendar – see nothing* 7:30-9:30am: *drink a full pot of coffee* 10:30am: *talk about what I’m going to do today with caffeine induced confidence* 12:00-7:00pm: *eat, …
Reading Time: 7 minutes Our Interdependence Never could we have anticipated a time in our lives where we would be advised to have as little, or no contact at all with other human beings. There are now many states where legal action can be taken against anyone bringing together groups larger than 10–15 people. …
Reading Time: 9 minutes Attention: An Effective Tool in a Distracted World Times have rapidly changed within the last few decades. There are more opportunities for learning than ever before, yet the same goes for distractions. The question is: have we stopped valuing our time and allowed for our attention to be taken hostage? …
Reading Time: 16 minutes *Note: This is a lengthy post – in order to fully describe the process underwent, it needed to be. If you want to skip to hear about the race itself, I recommend that too, read to what interests you* Training The idea of paying money to run in a foot …
