Happy New Year, dear readers! I'm not gonna lie; we all thought 2020 was bad and 2021 would be better, but at this point, it honestly feels like we've just been through one huge, horrible, double-length year of anguish and uncertainty. After all that, the holidays and typical year end frivolity just didn't feal right, …
Tag: psychology
Capitalism, in its Current Form, is an Addiction
America is truly a land of addictions. You need look no further than the latest statistics about the opioid epidemic to see. One hundred-thousand people died in the last year from opioid overdose, mostly from illegal fentanyl, a synthetic version of heroin. This is the same drug that took the lives of Prince, Tom Petty, …
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Time
Being that this is the week after our semi-annual, fuck-with-my-sleep-for-a-week thing we call the daylight saving time "Fall back," I thought I would write about TIME today. I have always had an uneasy relationship with time. It may or may not have started when, as a young child, I observed the arbitrariness of certain aspects …
What is the Real Difference Between Competence and the Appearance of Competence?
From all outside observation, most people would say I was very good at school. I got good grades and generally followed the rules. I have years of report cards and transcripts that show how capable I was, how much I learned. My final high school GPA was about 3.6 on a 4.0 scale. The problem …
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Life’s Too Short
Life's too short not to make every attempt to make amends with people with whom you've had a falling out. From those you find challenging (or vice versa), the most important lessons come. Life's too short to spend any more than 40 hours per week working. You also have other important things to do with …
The Power of “We”
America is an "I" country. I did this, I'm good at that. Me, me, ME! Everyone wants to talk about what they know, and oneself is the limit to what one can ever know, really. And how many of us REALLY know ourselves? Very few, I would say. So how helpful is this self-focus, anyway? …
Compartmentalization, or Why the Labor Economy is Broken
We are on the precipice of a whole new paradigm when it comes to who works where, how, and for how long. There may be many people who fear such upheaval and would rather just sit tight with the system we have because they had been able to hang on by the skin of their …
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Competition Does Not Always Yield the Best Results
In America, we have a philosophy that things must be ranked, optimized, put in order and our primary way of creating that order is through competition. We judge those who "win" as morally superior to those who "lose" in competition. If you lost a competition, you are encouraged to pick yourself up, dust yourself off …
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When Nothing Changes…
Thursday night, my husband had gone on a short weekend camping trip and I was left alone... with my thoughts. As I let the dog out for last pee, I found myself staring at the sky, looking to see whether the clouds have rolled in yet. We had rain forecasted to begin overnight Friday and …
Social Media Will Destroy Us All
So I got into a "conversation " with a couple of blokes on LinkedIn the other day related to Oregon's governor and a bill she signed related to education policy and standardized testing as a graduation requirement. The article cited was also politically conservative in nature and this series of white men were exclaiming from …
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