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Writing Off 2023

Perfecting the Day in the New Year

The World Needs More Pop Personalities with Purpose

False Profits

Dealing with Excruciating, Everyday Pain

Love First

Why I Bother

The House of the Future is Flooded, Falling Apart, and Empty

Keep it to Yourself

When in Doubt, Just Breathe

City-cidal Tendencies

I'm Dying

Amazing TVs for $100 and Mediocre Educations for $1,000,000

The Plurality is Near

Stop, Nature Time

Let Them Eat Government-Subsidized High Fructose Corn Syrup

Power: Where to Find It and What to Do With It

Contains No Active Cultures

Not Bad is Not Good

Keeping Lit in Dark Times

Maybe We’re Doing It All Wrong

The Planet Needs Fewer Outspoken Climate Activists and Far More Out-Doing Ones

For Your Listening Pleasure

Thoughts On Israel, Part I

10 Kick Ass Free Movies on YouTube

The Revolution Will Not Happen Online

Making Violence and Destruction Cost Prohibitive

The Attempted Assassination of Greatness

Oversharing Means Caring

The Future is Broke

Tesla Semi Truck ‘Sustainably’ Delivers Diabetes, Plastic Waste

When Balls Meet Wall

The Horror, The Horror

The Internet Teems with Information, Is Devoid of Wisdom

Out-of-Shape, Billionaire Technology Investor Can’t Get Enough Technology, Money

The Great Comfort Crisis

The History of the Future

Burning Man: Radical Privilege Meets Radical Cluelessness

9/11: Never Forget What?

Why WeWork Didn't Work

Finn de Siècle

Life Is What Happens When You’re Not Looking at Your Phone

Let Them Eat the Rich

Elois, Morlocks, and Time Travelers

Victim of Effects or Creator of Causes

Lies to Live By

How to be a Winner in Late Stage Capitalism

Wasted Energy

Denial Tops Mississippi As Largest River in America

To Have or To Be?

Affordable AF

America, F#ck Yeah!

A Universe Without Sh#t

Mandated Listening

No Steaks and No Stake in the Future

Spiritus Contra Spiritum

Thriving in the Midst of DOOM

The Center Will Not Hold

How Bad is Bad Enough?

The Joy of Breaking Down

Embracing Instability

Is Life in War-torn Ukraine Preferable to Everyday Life in the U.S.?

On Real and Recreational Tragedies

The State of Stupid

See Me Interviewed in a Documentary About Not Much of Anything

Minimalism: class, fetishes, and the fate of the planet

Get Out Now

Dark Matter Matters

Perspective

Babylon Redux: The Fall of New York City

To Do Well or To Do Good?

Apple’s (Dystopian) Vision

Do Nothing for Better Living

Global Running Day: 5 Real Reasons to Celebrate this Fake Holiday

The Big, Fat Problem

Synchronicity III

The Pickleball Effect: Lowering Bars Before Raising Standards

Apocalypse Soon

4-Hour Wisdom

America's Wasted Spaces

Persecuted Are the Peacemakers

A History of Violence

Musical Interlude

Delivering Misery

Why 'Thinking About It' Is Usually a Pointless Exercise

I've Got a Feeling

When Circumstances Deteriorate Faster than Expectations Can be Lowered

Flying or Falling Off a Cliff?

TikTok and the Death of History

How to be Better than Your Peers

For The Borg, by The Borg

Everyday Dystopianism

The Queer Behavior of the Ultra Rich

Don’t Look at the Dead Rat in the Living Room

Building Ideal Housing and Ideal Lives

Birthday Reflections

On Becoming a Try-Hard

Follow Feet, Not Thoughts

Pough Folk Running Company

Do the Hard Stuff First

Being a Human is Difficult. It Takes Practice to Get Good at It.

Spiritual Paths and Hedonic Treadmills

My Precious…Little Apartment

The Tao of Poo

Depleting Reserve

Effectively Kill 99.99% of All Pride

Plagiarizing Wisdom

Worlds Made of Words

F#ck Pride

Unreality

Why I Run…and How I Do It Injury Free

Running in the Park

Creating with Purpose, Dining with André

Winning While Getting Your Ass Handed to You

I Could Have Been a Kardashian

Finding Enlightenment in the Midst of Chaos and Decay

90 Days to Feel Again

What I Write About When I Don’t Feel Like Writing

Why the World's Biggest Problems Go Unsolved

No Artificial Intelligence Added

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