Tag: the philosophy of the everyday

I had a job interview this week. While people were encouraging me to do well, I realized humans haven’t really figured out certain conversational norms. We don’t know what to say when some tragedy occurs (except a frowny face and the standard ‘if you need anything…’ remark), which I think is the worst case. But…

I read this today: What matters is to be right, not nuanced. Again, sometimes the right position is nuanced, but there’s no reason to assume that from the get-go. And I fully agree. But it inspired me to develop a methodology for my life. I behave in certain ways when I talk to people or…

My friend Benjamin Jagear used to always say to me, “Pixel – look at all of the problems in your life and ask yourself: how many of those problems were caused by your enemies and how many can be traced back to your friends?” The idea was simple: your enemies, in real life, tend to…

There is no rest from now on. My friend’s girlfriend said today ((I use the word ‘today’ as a literary device. I was thinking about her saying this today, she actually said it a few months ago. It takes me half a year to process most comments. They’re not even dating anymore.  Sorry if this…

80. My circle of friends hasn’t really changed since middle school. This alone makes me want to leave New Mexico. This is Daniel’s long awaited response, In a recent conversation, Pixel and I argued whether or not “streets-smarts” was anything beyond a made-up term that stupid people used to make fun of the smart. My…

I recently did a post on mysteries. It wasn’t very in depth, really it was just me asking everybody what their favorite mystery was. I worried when I wrote the post that somebody was going to ask ‘the big question’ of ‘why are we here?’ And sure enough, someone did: why we exist, D-U-H….. xoxo…