No, Trump Is Not a Fascist. Neither Are BLM Rioters — Fascism has turned into a casual word, one that we can just throw around as an insult. These days, if you google ‘fascism’, beyond the Wikipedia page, most of the articles are discussing the relatively fascist tendencies of Donald Trump. But that detracts from the severity of it. This is…

Here’s why that’s a good thing — Machines are going to take over all the jobs. It’s inevitable. We have seen it coming since the Industrial Revolution. Human labor will no longer be needed. There won’t be enough work to go around. And that could be fantastic. Throughout history, our biggest advancements have come from people who…

Crafting your dream life — Everybody wants to feel accepted. It’s ingrained in us to seek approval. Not too long ago, being outcast from your social group would mean death. So our neurology learned that acceptance was crucial to our survival. Unfortunately, this all-important wiring can fail us. Subconsciously, we organize our lives around the…

How Fiction Improves Your Mind — Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can- Richard Hughes We forget that humans are story orientated. We are driven by emotion, though we pretend otherwise. This propensity for stories makes fiction so powerful, and so beneficial. In a world…

No. But we should never stop aiming for it — Is a utopian society possible? No. But we can get close. A utopia is defined as an imagined place or state of things where everything is perfect. By definition, no, an imagined state is not reality. We can’t achieve utopia. It’s also not possible because of human diversity. We all…

How being poor is making people sick — Infectious Disease, much of the time, is an expression of injustice, more than it is an expression of human limitations on our capacity to treat disease.- John Green Humans are capable of the most incredible things. We are getting a corona vaccine within a year of the pandemic. WHO declared…

Picking the Right Music is Everything — Well-chosen music can promote and extend that magical state of flow. Flow is when you are completely absorbed in your work, and it no longer feels like a chore. Time flies and work slides by, with the satisfying result of crossing off items on the to-do list. Music acts as…

3 studying methods that changed everything — I will always remember the first test I failed. I had always taken pride in my grades and thought of myself as a smart kid. But smart didn’t get me through chemistry when I was 16. So I began researching how to study. I hated memorizing lists of facts, and…

The foundations of self-improvement — The first 40 minutes of Limitless is a productivity nerd’s dream. The protagonist’s life is falling apart. He has to write a book but can’t get past the blinking cursor on the screen. His apartment is akin to a garbage dump. Nothing is going his way. Then he gets offered…