Are children a gift or a punishment? — Religious people are notoriously bad at following rules. But exemplary at enforcing them. My religion teacher always wore, the same thing. He came in with the same khaki pants, brown belt, clashing blue shoes and array of polo shirts. Name brand. It struck me that he decided to invest in…

“Be kind, especially, when we don’t know what’s going on.” — “You know why I created the bagel?” Joy said, “It wasn’t to destroy everything. It was to destroy myself.” The everything bagel holds everything. Obviously, it’s an everything bagel. Poppy seeds, salt, seasonings and all the feelings we’d rather not confront. That was what it did for Jobu-Tupaki. …

And all the other things I never thought I’d say — Amid the worst spiral of my life, on the run from a narcissist who wouldn’t stop calling four times an hour — I tried rationalizing narcissism. By the time you start dating a narcissist, you’ve presumably spent a substantial part of your life enveloped by a different one. Likely, a…

Three reasons recruiters are likely not responding to you — Getting a job in UX Design is no easy task. There are a lot of ins and outs when it comes to understanding this industry, and it’s always going to be difficult breaking into a new industry. Whether you’re cold applying and not hearing back, or trying to network and…

Is it healthier to care anymore, or not? — It’s impossible to foster a healthy human psyche in the United States. It’s lost between shooters, gun-toters and civilians alike. We’ve all been irreversibly damaged by the fundamental misdirection of the United States. Maybe you haven’t figured out how it broke you yet. Maybe, it doesn’t matter. At the end…

Realistic financial advice for poor-ish people — The average working individual wouldn’t consider themselves poor. But they are. There are people poorer than them, but there’s an ever-present element of struggle when you’re slightly over the line of poor. You earn what’s livable, but not what's relaxing. Previously known as the middle-middle class, they’re now known as…

Or, be killed — Capitalism has an insidious way of making us feel like our failures within this system are all our fault. As if the system runs fine, and it's just us that's the issue. Of course, we have to take some accountability for our situation. …

Men can no longer be providers, and it's tearing us all apart — On one side of the spectrum, we have the podcasters. If you’ve never heard of Fresh and Fit, don’t dive into their content; it’s brain-melting at best, incredibly depressing at worst. If you’ve spent any time online in the last few months, you’ve likely seen the rise of podcasts run…

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but there are tiers to it — Most people I know would like to own a home one day. Many of them would also like to own several. And unfortunately, owning multiple homes is an ethical issue, but it's never spoken about as such. We’re in such a late stage of capitalism, that it’s hard to imagine…