Throughout my life, my worth has been determined by my achievements. I feel great when I do something well, but feel awful when I inevitably don’t meet expectations.

We’ve been taught that self-development is a virtue, but behind every resolution is a subtle whisper. “This version of me is an error.”

We’ve been taught that if we are not doing anything, we are essentially dying. In contrast, living a frantic life is somehow “living life to its fullest.”

I’ve come to realize that the search for meaningful work was an error in belief, as it inherently implies lack, as though I need meaningful work to be complete.

It’s the story of Wicked. For Glinda to be seen as good, there must be the opposite of evil, which was projected upon Elphaba.

Most solutions are very simple. The most elegant solutions have a direct line to the problem. However, solutions with the easiest, direct routes to success are routinely bypassed in favor of indirect ones. In an effort to make this idea more concrete, a task that involves ten units of effort is deliberately inflated to 50…

When Adam Smith wrote about economics in the 18th century, the basic premise was that natural resources were limited while human desires were limitless. This is what we call scarcity. As a result, economics became the practice of addressing infinite desires through finite means of production. Hundreds of years later, I’m here to question this…

We like to call this hope, but what if hope is a veil that blinds us to what is occurring in the present moment? What if we are so caught up in the future that we don’t take care of what is in front of us?

To empathize with someone automatically places us in a power dynamic, where someone is suffering, and the other is feeling.

Many conventional relationships feature two individuals connected by something. One would say that love is the currency in the exchange between two individuals, but is that always the case? What if it’s rare?