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Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated

·Feb 7

How to Deal With a Broken Heart

Let’s take a look at what comes with a break up and what we can do with what’s left — If you’re reading these words, there’s a good chance you’re hurting. You and I are very different people, leading very different lives. Yet, when it comes to pain, while yours may be more or less intense than my own, the qualities of that pain are exactly the same. Through this…

Relationships

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How to Deal With a Broken Heart
How to Deal With a Broken Heart
Relationships

7 min read


Published in An Injustice!

·Jan 31

An Apology to Tyre Nichols

From one American to another — If you’ve endured the uncomfortable duty laid at the foot of every American and forced yourself to watch the video of Tyre Nichols’s brutal execution at the hands of Memphis Police officers, then you likely feel as I do. …

Racism

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An Apology to Tyre Nichols
An Apology to Tyre Nichols
Racism

4 min read


Jan 12

6 Ways Relationships Can Quickly Become Unfair

Here are a number of the subtle ways habits and expectations can work to cause imbalances in relationships — The dividing lines between these categories, like with most categories, can get a little blurry. Some of them overlap with others or are subsets of others, but all in all, I believe if we want to suss out unfair conditions in our relationships, looking at these six structural factors makes…

Love

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6 Ways Relationships Can Quickly Become Unfair
6 Ways Relationships Can Quickly Become Unfair
Love

10 min read


Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Dec 28, 2022

Ava’s Magic Glasses

Do you see what I see? — Ava had something of a secret. When she was in her early teens, she got a pair of unusual eyeglasses. When she looked through them, she gained a supernatural ability: She would see evidence for any truth she pondered. She would think to herself things such as, What really happened…

Philosophy

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Ava’s Magic Glasses
Ava’s Magic Glasses
Philosophy

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Published in Mind Cafe

·Dec 15, 2022

Why You Really Shouldn’t Talk About Your Relationship With Other People

There’s a lot of bad and not too much good that comes from sharing the particulars of our relationship with others. — There’s a famous parable that you might’ve heard of: It’s about a group of blind men that encounter an elephant. None of the men had ever come across the animal before. They each extend out a hand and touch a different part of it—one the tusk, one the the leg…

Relationships

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Why You Really Shouldn’t Talk About Your Relationship With Other People
Why You Really Shouldn’t Talk About Your Relationship With Other People
Relationships

7 min read


Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Dec 4, 2022

God and the Box

A short story about subjectivity and epistemology — God once found a box. It was a small box, even by your standards or mine, but it was a special box. He would try to open it every day, but, for whatever reason, he simply could not. He sent floods, and lightning, and hell flame, but no matter what…

Philosophy

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God and the Box
God and the Box
Philosophy

7 min read


Published in An Injustice!

·Nov 24, 2022

Why Is It “Okay” for Black People to Make Jokes About White People?

What can and cannot be joked about often highlights power dynamics within the social structure — Many times in my life, I’ve heard people ask the question I’ve posed in the title of this piece: “Why is it acceptable for Black people to make fun of White people, while White people making fun of Black people is largely off limits?” The premise assumed in the question…

Politics

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Why Is It “Okay” for Black People to Make Jokes About White People?
Why Is It “Okay” for Black People to Make Jokes About White People?
Politics

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Published in The Writing Cooperative

·Sep 3, 2022

How I Wrote a #1 Book in Two Days

It’s a lot easier to get real book sales if you use these few simple tactics — If you’re a long-term follower, you know that I don’t believe in rushing your writing process or putting anything out just because it’ll be good clickbait and likely to generate sales. I simply respect the craft too much for that. …

Marketing

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How I Wrote a #1 Book in Two Days
How I Wrote a #1 Book in Two Days
Marketing

5 min read


Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Aug 27, 2022

The Age of Code: How Information Will Become the Only Product

Technological trends are driving an evolution in the “product” as we know it, from something physical to something purely informational. — Information has always had enormous value. The human brain is nothing without its inputs. Our ability to create and process language allowed for a transfer of knowledge between generations, which by way of constant accumulation, has created the advanced and complex societies we find ourselves in today. Written word augmented…

Business

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The Age of Code: How Information Will Become the Only Product
The Age of Code: How Information Will Become the Only Product
Business

6 min read


Published in Curious

·Aug 10, 2022

Why It’s So Difficult to Apologize

Apologies are more complicated than we realize. There’s a lot that goes into an apology, and for the average person, there’s a lot to apologize for. Often, to make an apology feels like a hill to climb. Why is it so difficult to apologize when making mistakes is so common? …

Relationships

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Why It’s So Difficult to Apologize
Why It’s So Difficult to Apologize
Relationships

5 min read

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