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Mike Carlson

So, 2022 — can we talk?

As a friend recently wrote me in reference to us not having communicated recently, “it’s been a minute.” Just now I was reminded of the…

Mar 15

So, 2022 — can we talk?

Mar 15

Mike Carlson

Meritocracy, Capitalism, and the Perception of Diminished Rights

[I wrote this about 3 years ago, but came across it today, and it’s still got some oomph, so decided to publish it!]

Feb 6, 2020

Meritocracy, Capitalism, and the Perception of Diminished Rights

Feb 6, 2020

Mike Carlson

Monday I’m getting on a plane and flying to Connecticut for a job interview

Who’s crazy enough to go to this much fuss to talk to me in-person (say my self-doubting synapses)?

Aug 17, 2019

Monday I’m getting on a plane and flying to Connecticut for a job interview

Aug 17, 2019

Mike Carlson

Loyalty has nothing to do with exclusivity

If you reframe monogamy as a framework for romantic and sexual exclusion (inspired by the way I've frequently seen 'loyalty' and 'fidelity'…

Sep 4, 2018

Loyalty has nothing to do with exclusivity

Sep 4, 2018

Mike Carlson

thoughts on social networking: active engagement vs. reactive consumption

I continue to think about my relationship to social networking as offered by ad-driven, for-profit corporations. While I focus heavily on…

Apr 20, 2018

thoughts on social networking: active engagement vs. reactive consumption

Apr 20, 2018

Mike Carlson

Healing as coming unstuck

An inability to move on is a tacit admission that healing is impossible. Or, it’s a belief that healing must equal the impossibility of…

Mar 16, 2018

Healing as coming unstuck

Mar 16, 2018

Mike Carlson

“I Love You” is a potion-filled vial

Feb 3, 2018

“I Love You” is a potion-filled vial

Feb 3, 2018

Mike Carlson

Mike Carlson

I'm an atypical middle-aged white mountain-man with a strong interest in egalitarianism and justice. I answer to 'intellectual', 'introvert', and 'INF*'.

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