The Crystal World Book Review
As I have read more and more fiction books, I have noticed that my process for finding new authors/books has radically changed over time. When I was working early in the morning at my retail job, I would quickly browse good reads for highly rated short stories (under 6 hours) that I could listen to […]
Something in My Teeth
Pocket Aces. The flop is Jack, Queen, King suited. Just need the 10 spade to hit. In my entire poker career I’ve only hit one other time, and I didn’t even know I’d hit it. That was back when I was 13 playing for money to eat. 10 spades. Now I’m 56. People around this […]
Defending the Degree: An Anthology
As I approach the end of my undergraduate degree, I’ve been wanting to write about what I have learned and what my overall take on college is. Ever since I started college in 2019, I feel like there has been a growing trend that is anti-college. Critics of the college degree generally cite the financial […]
The Business Opportunity
Thursday After a long day of medium-hard labor— walking on redundantly themed white tile, and unboxing the same big box into the same small box— it was time for the most glorious moment of the day. The walk towards the time clock is arguably better than actually clocking out. With each step, the excitement grows. […]
The Dissonance of Neoliberalism
Markets don’t care about your feelings. Principles don’t matter, results do. If you commit and fail, you’re a failure. And if you don’t commit, you’re a coward. But if you win- oh my- if you win, then annuit cœptis. In this society our politicians and experts use only descriptions as prescriptions and our freedoms can only be defined by how much we allow markets to regiment us. By the end of Monday, you don’t even care if it was a red or a green day for the Nasdaq you just hope your monotonous job will be there tomorrow. On the drive back home, you have a collection of thoughts that go something like this:
Jacques the Fatalist Review
At this current moment, I’m quite vexed about how little Denis Diderot is talked about in our current time. Every time I go to my local bookstores and ask about Diderot, I’m met with a facial expression closely related to the one we all use when we smell something awful. After spelling the name and […]
The French Dispatch Review
A meaningful, fresh, and evocative perspective on life. Wes Anderson pulls together a masterful cast that translate such a meaningful script from a work of theory into an act of practice. The French Dispatch takes viewers through a collection of stories written from the perspectives of the journalists who work for a Newspaper Company owned […]
Purpose.
Claude Monet’s Plum Trees in Blossom at Vetheuil 1879. Firstly, welcome to my blog! As I have been getting everything set up for this I have actually come to dislike the word ‘blog’. If words had an image, I feel like blog would look like the cross between a Lord of Rings orc and the […]