This isn’t about convincing anyone to do things my way (how boring a world that would be!). But if you don’t know that you have choices beyond the mainstream world, then you aren’t actually making decisions from a place of truth and desire. You are living on autopilot and not considering the impact of living a life in accordance to the status quo, whose only agenda is to keep you relying on it. So what do I mean by giving away power?
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The -Ism No One is Talking About.
Children are wild and free. This alone can be very triggering to some people, but they are and that is the truth of their biology. They are meant to move, explore, be rowdy, run around, test things, play, and be in connection with other people. And not just for a couple of hours blocked off every day, but all the time. They are meant to live it. The problem is not children, the problem is a society that makes no room for them to be who they are.
Moving to a New City? Here Are 8 Tips for Building a Social Life from Scratch
Praxis alumnus and GrowthLion Media CEO Evan Le gave his breakdown of how to build a social life from scratch when you move to a new city. Here are his points, paraphrased with some additional mixed-in commentary from yours truly.
I Haven’t Stopped Playing: How Childhood Play Can Make Your Work Life Better
All my play and all my imitation of my fictional heroes ironically prepared me for the sober reality of the working world. They taught me the value of being brave. They taught me how to put up with pain with a sense of humor and resilience. They showed me how to find creative solutions, tell stories, and inspire people.
Jealous of Cops?
Some of my detractors are right: I’m jealous of cops. Yes, I am. I admit it.
Preparedness versus “Price-Gouging”: Don’t Hold Out for a Hero
Living as I do in another hurricane-prone area (Florida) where I got a small taste of the phenomenon from Hermine last year, and having seen my share of tornadoes, blizzards, floods, earthquakes, etc. in other places, it seems to me that hoping for such heroics should be the last rather than the first resort.
Don’t Give Government More to Do
To my reform-minded (as opposed to abolition-minded) friends, please stop trying to make statism ‘better’ and work on making it smaller and weaker. Your goals of replacing the state’s current systems of plunder and redistribution with different systems of plunder and redistribution are not helpful.
The Most Pervasive Form of Censorship in the U.S.
Bureaucracies and armed agents preclude you from hiring, renting to, selling to, or inviting into your home or business the majority of the earth’s population without near impossible approval processes. I can think of no greater violation of human rights and dignity.
3 Ways To Get More Value From Facebook In a Few Minutes a Day
The key for people like us is using Facebook intentionally. Of all possible ways to use Facebook, there are a few activities that provide the most value. Fortunately for us, it’s easy enough to find them. Here are a few I’ve found through experimentation and recommendations from others.
How To Live In a Nuclear-Armed World
It’s our own small inhumanities that create our great inhumanities. It’s our small humanities that can save the world. If it’s too late, it’s too late. But I much prefer to play my music as the ship sinks than to let myself be ruled by fear.