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Nick Roy
Professional higher ed identity nerd, amateur doer of life.
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Where Do We Lead?
Beyond Politics and The Economy
As the United States falls deeper into the willful anarchy of intentional leaderlessness demonstrated by our elected officials, I’ve noticed a trend of uncertainty about how we should lead among people of my generation. We late-Gen-Xers/early Millennials (those of us born some time in the late 1970s-early 1980s) straddle the border between a couple different dynamics. If you subscribe to Strauss-Howe generational theory (some have called it pseudoscience — I value it as an observation of a…
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Driving As Zen Kōan
The Importance of Tactility
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Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, Katniss, Peeta, Kirk and Spock
Zen, Magic Mushrooms and Movies
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“2001: A Space Odyssey” in the Context of “Mad Men”
I remember the first time I realized that the future was not going to be even remotely like it appeared in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
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