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When Someone You Love Dies, Your World Goes With Them
Reflection on my mom's death and how it distorted my sense of time and space
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The Most Persuasive Future We Imagine Wins, Not the Noblest or Most Accurate
And why accurate and noble narratives about the future can only mobilize collective action if the people can build and describe this future together.
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Is Family All?
For the very same reason that we have had more ups and downs with our relatives, we should hold them more accountable for what they do.
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The Blind Spot in AI Tutors Holding Every Student Back
From Khan Academy to ChatGPT: Are We Missing the Point in EdTech?
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Perhaps No One Enjoys Only Eating Eggs and Bananas 1095 Times a Year
The abstract, distant, and theoretical understanding of people different than us often makes us forget they are people, too.
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We Are Falling Short
When we are silent after 30,000 people are massacred, we are falling short.
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Think With Your Bigger Head
Male nomads aren't increasingly being kidnapped just because cities are "dangerous."
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The Great Books and Thinkers Not Always Know Best
We want, and rightly so, to believe that the names everyone praises can answer all our problems.
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Do What You Are Inspired To Do Right Away
It might not be the perfect time, but it might be the only time.
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Feminine Energy
He hires sex workers to massage him everywhere. He says it is close to the real thing, only without love, and sometimes cheaper.
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Nuclear Words
Why semantic drifts aren't harmless, and why we shouldn't support feminism and instead support feminism.
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We Have Gotten Worse at Dealing With Our Problems
One day, I hope, we will relearn how to bench press without Kanye, break up in person, and untie plastic bags instead of slashing them
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