What will you do with this one wild and precious life? Will you settle into a comfortable routine And watch yourself age out of everything You ever wanted to do? Will you numb yourself in pleasures Until you aren’t conscious enough to notice That your life-force is moving on To…

I am writing this today because I didn’t start my day on my phone. For years now, media has been hijacking my brain and I’ve been dopamine juicing with it like a junkie, begging for another little hit just to keep me from feeling the depression under the surface. …

We are anesthetized in our current world, Restrained from our nature as animals, So that society can function smoothly. We don’t let the animal out, The soul begins to atrophy, And we become desperate to feel something, Anything. Twitching legs, Tight shoulders, Anxiety building slowly, Our bodies know that we…

So, Spotify has pulled 113 Joe Rogan episodes, some of them in which he used the N-word and once he referred to a black community with a deeply disturbing derogatory comparison. He apologized and agreed to the episodes being taken down. But didn’t he get popular partly because he doesn’t…

There is a universal human propensity to something called the omission bias. This is our tendency to see greater fault in action that leads to harmful outcomes than inaction that leads to equally harmful outcomes. …

Conspiracy Theories are running rampant — reality is split. The stories we tell, the data won’t fit. We anthropomorphize enemies that don’t exist, Enemies that rule the world from on high, Like gods they even control the weather in the sky. We’ve been hard-wired to think this way for millennia. …

In 2016 I didn’t understand how anyone could become a Neo-Nazi when it is the most universally condemned identification with evil in the world. But with the rise of Qanon, I now understand how it is possible. The mind is very flexible, and while we are resistant to approving of…

It is a feature of the human mind to turn the detail-rich world around us, the things and people we interact with, into concepts, categorizing, labeling, stereotyping. It is greatly alleviating to the brain’s costly glucose-burning processor to stop looking at all the details that make up a situation or…

I remember when I was rooting for my alma mater, USC, in the national title game against Texas in 2006. USC was looking for 3 consecutive national titles and had been undefeated for basically two years, some touting them the best college football team ever. In a very exciting game…