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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 EconomyAs 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
    Nick Roy5 min read

      Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, Katniss, Peeta, Kirk and Spock

      Zen, Magic Mushrooms and Movies
      Nick Roy7 min read

        “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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          Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

          I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds The story of Tilde.Club
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            Letting go of things. And history.

            Do you know what’s sad?
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              Stop Saying “Welcome to Middle Age”

              Where’s the cancer?
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