What I learned volunteering in prison for 6 months

Hint: It’s nothing like TV or the movies.

Is it better to be loving than to be right?

I’ve never regretted being loving, but there are plenty of…

A Brief Introduction to Pessimism

I once read that you can learn more from what has gone wrong than what has gone right. The idea is…

A Catalogue of Journalistic Malfeasance

The reporting on Edward Snowden has been dreadful. Is there a way to make it better?

Two weeks ago, when the Guardian first leaked a Verizon court order to hand over its call…

Photo Sharing and The Tyranny of the Remembering Self

My Other Mother

As I’m writing our memories together, she’s laying in a hospital eight thousand miles away.

I wish I could be there for her, just like how she was always there for me, and everyone that she encountered. I’m lucky that fate had lead me to her. I wish somehow I could pass that…

Working The Graveyard Shift At Howard Johnsons

Originally posted at my blog Culturalpurveyor.com in…

Better

Whether we’re designers, developers, managers or athletes, as humans we’re always striving for…