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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • The business model of the press

    The business model of the press guarantees you will see more negativity than the facts support. Things are often better than they seem, especially in the long run. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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  • Building habits and a new hairbrush

    Building habits and a new hairbrush

    With the year spent mostly within my room’s comfort, I don’t spend much time brushing my hair. Mainly because I have the regular comb you use in the shower, and it never inspires me to make hair brushing a habit. As much as I wanted to have detangled hair all day long, I never had the Read more

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  • Bad attitudes and pointing fingers

    It’s easy to call out other people about their bad attitudes while having bad attitudes yourself. And you may even tell other people how horrible they are without seeing yourself as terrible at par. I had this encounter with a man one time who is openly proud of his brashness and lack of self-control. He Read more

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  • News that lean in one direction

    News that is reported the same by news outlets on both the left and the right is probably true. If you only see a story reported by news sites that lean in one direction, it probably isn’t true. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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  • Back on the farm

    Back on the farm

    Growing up in a small city, I always wondered how it’s like to live in a big one, with tall buildings everywhere you look at. But now that I am living in the metro with almost concrete everywhere, I can’t help but wish to be back home. To be away from the never-ending noise and Read more

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  • 2020 rhymes with 2008 and 2009

    History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Mark Twain I’ve been listening to Harvard Business Review IdeaCast podcast since early this year, and I decided to begin with their first episode, which aired in 2006. After hours and hours of interrupted playback and juggling in-between podcasts, I thought I accidentally played 2020 the moment Read more

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  • Misleading reports and missing contexts

    Reports about famous people and other newsworthy topics are either wrong or misleading about 60 percent of the time, often because they lack context. Wait a few days before forming an opinion on anything new, just in case context is missing. It usually is. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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Everyday Stories, Lived

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