What Must Be Laid Bare
When we are young, do we really know who our heroes are? Our innocence shields us from the truth of sin; we don’t yet fathom the subterfuge of what is today commonly called “adulting”. So much of what we learn as kids turns out to be hollow promises and flat out lies. I often lay […]
If They Hate It, You’re Doing Something Right
Creativity is a fickle mistress, seducing you with a brilliant idea one day, only to leave you stranded in a wasteland of self-doubt the next. You’re minding your own business, perhaps having a cup of tea that’s somehow both too bitter and too weak, when a thought strikes you. No, it’s a revelation. “This,” you […]
How I Seek Riches Through Creating Value Over Time
When I left college to pursue my first full-time job as a marketing assistant, I stood at the precipice of my future. The world was spread out before me with so many fields ripe with possibility. As the question of my ultimate career path loomed, I pondered the nature of my vocational pursuits. Should I […]
Using Silence Constructively
For most of my life, I’ve tried to fill every empty moment with something, whether it be music, daydreams, or video games. But on particularly desperate days, my only company would be the sound of my own thoughts pinging around my skull like a manic pinball machine. Now, as years tick by, I’ve noticed a […]
Reading is Good
It’s almost embarrassing to admit as a writer, but I once went a full year without reading a single book. Yes, that’s an eternity in literary terms. Now while I could offer you a dozen excuses for this travesty — too busy, too tired, or too distracted — the truth is that I simply forgot. […]
Don’t Focus on Winning — Focus on Progress
Why Consistent Effort is Better Than Flash-in-the-Pan Success I’m going to drop a brutal truth right now: most of us will never be the winners of life. If you’re the sort of person who still holds onto dreams of grand success, allow me to rain on your parade — gently, of course. One of the […]
Context is For Queens
Humans are stubborn, willful little creatures. We’re relentlessly determined to understand the nature of, well, everything. But as much as we act like cosmic detectives, we don’t have the skill, the right tools, or even a faint idea of what the mystery is we’re trying to solve. Sure, we can keep pretending we can wrap […]
Why We Need to Stop Seeking Problems in Search of Solutions
In this glorious postmodern age, in which we enjoy more solutions than actual problems, we seem to be inventing problems just to keep ourselves entertained. It seems in the globalization of humanity we’ve collectively decided that life would be too dull without a few manufactured crises to spice things up.After all, what’s the point of […]
Keeping Up in the Information Age
When I was knee-deep in the digital marketing swamp, I thought I could keep up with it all—knowledge, trends, my inbox, you name it. My goal was to become some kind of 21st-century renaissance woman who would become one of the expected heroes of the information age. Yeah, I was dead wrong about that. It […]