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Why do we find it so hard to do the easy thing?
It is the oldest, simplest, and I guess the most challenging thing in the human experience. Me want thing. Not enough for all. Me take. You suffer. Through the eons and across each of our lives, we are...
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Our default settings
I often find myself asking “how did we get here as a society?” and “why can’t people understand basic, shared facts about reality?!” Human behavior has always been a head-scratcher, I suppose, but in...
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Slacktivism (and White Fragility) Don’t Matter
If you are alive and conscious in 2020 on earth, you are being forced to look at the countless ways in which systemic racism and police brutality suppress Black lives in many and mortal ways. As with...
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Remix what you’ve got
Like most of you sitting at home for work, personal life, etc., I find myself re-examining a lot about how my house functions (or doesn’t). While I admit I have been tempted to start ordering things...
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Getting a signal
A month ago, I went primitive camping in the Davis Mountains by myself. It had been around ten years since I’d been backpacking (although I “car camp” around once a year) and more than twenty since I’d...
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From a safe distance
It’s pretty amazing how this pandemic has awakened us to the way things are. Almost as if a giant chasm opened up in the earth, a line was drawn down the middle of our society: on one side people,...
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Is this thing on? Ten years of The Off Switch
September of 2010, I had hit a wall. Smart phones, email, and social media were taking over my psyche and I could see no end in sight. So, I pulled the plug. The Off Switch blog here, was a sort of...
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Hack the algorithms. They favor outrage.
The pandemic. The social injustice. Corrupt systems. Wildfires. The elections. It seems there is no escape from the maddening turmoil and the inanity of human folly refusing reason. “Why won’t you do...
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A New Agreement
Yours truly. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the agreement you make when you’re born white—and especially a white man. You arrive in a system customized for you by people like you and nobody...
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The unknowable possibility of words
Every now and again there’s a conversation that’s so enlightening and moving that it sort of sends your mind reeling. Yesterday, I had one such exchange with a colleague over coffee who I first met...
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