Increase engagement and start making passive income from your side-hustle. — There’s an ocean of content. Don’t you want yours to float? This is the only guide you’ll need. Here are 10 dead-simple tips to level up your writing. Each is carefully crafted for the age of social media. …

All the information we consume is packaged as entertainment, and our awareness suffers for it. — Nearly 40 years ago, Neil Postman published Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. He wrote it responding to the rise of television, delivering a harrowing warning about mixing entertainment with education. The crux of Postman’s argument is that everything on television is entertainment —…

If all it means for a romance to be doomed is that you know it will end, then all relationships are doomed. Because everything ends. — The saying “all good things come to an end” isn’t wrong, but it’s misleading. The saying should be “all things end, and it’s hard to let the good things go.” We know this truth of change and finitude, but we still treat good things as if they should last forever…

We get to witness one magical day that gives Cameron the courage to change his course — to take a stand. — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of my favorite films. It has always fascinated and entertained me. Even though I’ve seen it upwards of 10 times, I always find something new or have something new to think about after watching it. My most recent rewatch was inspired by an episode…

Each patron is exalted as a temporary exhibit featuring the books in their head. — I walked in intending to finish an essay-in-progress. But I should’ve known better than to come here with a strict agenda. Part of the appeal of this place is that it rewards aimless exploration. The space itself is a conduit for buried thoughts — the ones you have but have…

You’ll find beauty everywhere if you explore and create moments of stillness along the way. — For 15 minutes, I stood in the same spot, which I had chosen for its vantage point, and observed Öxarárfoss — the waterfall that feeds the site of Iceland’s ancient Viking parliament, Thingvellir. For 15 minutes, I stood within the same square foot on a large, crowded observation deck. And…

It’s okay that people come and go because the alternative is that you lose yourself. — We’re all on our own journeys in life. Imagine those journeys as road trips. Maybe you have a route mapped out, or maybe you turn where you want and stop at the places you find interesting. It’s likely a bit of both. No matter our methods, two things are true…

Assuming a leadership position doesn’t mean taking a place above others; it means taking a place in front of others. — In many ways, leadership is hard to nail down. How’re you to know whether you should lead? If you chose to lead, how should you? What approach would be the most effective for the group, for the project? Through a combination of my own trial and error, observing others’ (good…

The fallacy is to think “someone ought to intervene” and, at the same time, “it doesn’t have to be me.” — I’m sure you’ve heard of the bystander effect. It is “the social psychological theory that states that an individual’s likelihood of helping decreases when passive bystanders are present in an emergency situation” (1). Put simply, the more bystanders there are, the less likely it is that anyone will intervene.