Fudging the truth is a way you show respect for entities. It's like when a young mother of three dies of cancer, religious people will mention it and then say, "God is sovereign". This a sign they are deferring to God. Also, when a high-status person ghosts a lot...
I am not learning the lessons from my suffering that those in power want me to. They want me to concoct some kind of redemptive narrative out of all I suffer. I can't and I won't. Some of the lessons. Power is the most important thing. Power and empowerment are the...
People blame social media for generation Z's mental health woes and that may be part of it but it's an easy scapegoat that requires us to do none of the inner work as to why things have gotten the way they have. Having a serious mental illness myself I would like to...
Great discussion on LinkedIn replying to this: Good thing I didn’t get used to these crazy salaries and perks because all that is about to change. Tech salaries are way out of line with reality in these FAANG companies and all it takes is a recession to shine light on...
Intersectionality is thorny in ways that both sides of the conservative/liberal divide don't appreciate. Intersectionality refers to the idea that when someone is a member of more than one marginalized group their experience is a singularity to people who only belong...
people say the pain of the process will make sense in the endbut kneading and baking are only worth it if the bread doesn't burn As I write this some people are trying to concoct some kind of redemptive narrative on how the last four years of Trump made us better...
when the whole world has always said "you can't"and when, despite your best efforts, you say "I didn't"its a sad demoralizationto overcome prejudicesometimes your best is still not enough only the disabledrecognize how precious and life givingconformity can bebecause...
I recently read one of the most profound Reddit comments I have ever read, in response to someone suggesting the thread poster go into tech. They said tech job interviews are basically hazing. I wish someone would have told me this 20 years ago, it could have saved me...
One thing they left out of the Book of Common Prayer is that in order for many of your prayers to work they have to be uncommon, they have to beat out all the others' prayers for the same thing. For example if you are vying for that good house or that job with a...
if i were an organ in the body of Christ it would be the appendix because i make the rest of the members of the body so uncomfortable they cut me right out when the church abdicates the responsibility to care for the poor and the government steps in and takes its...