All young people should get a blog. I don’t care whether it’s a custom-hosted blog like this one, Medium, or Tumblr, teenagers should be documenting their ideas and experiences online in long form. A friend shared an unfortunate story with…
Few things on earth are as fertile as a child’s imagination, or as fragile as a little girl’s heart. She was 7. Whenever we’d poll the family as to what we should watch on movie night, she’d say Titanic. Every…
When you get right down to it, we’re all just rats. “Look at me and how fast I can go! Join me and run fast too!” Said the rat with the big microphone spinning on the wheel. Smiling his rat…
“Today’s the fourth of July. Another June has gone by. And when they light up our town I just think what a waste of gunpowder and sky.” – Aimee Mann, 4th of July Part of the American problem is that…
Content. It’s the new advertising. We all know why it works, so this post isn’t about that. Rather, it’s about the core concept of content. Specifically, storytelling. Anyone can place an ad. All you need is a budget. Anyone can write…
We went to see Jurassic World on Saturday, and something amazing happened. I became the old guy whom young guys detest. As there were four of us going, and it was lunchtime and we hadn’t eaten, we got a big…
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