Agree? — “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly to start.” “Get up. Dress up. Show up. Never give up.” “Harsh truth: Success comes from hard work and determination.” “True leaders build leaders.” “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” Agree? Of course, you…

We’re gonna do this all over again, aren’t we? — Y’all, I can’t even open LinkedIn anymore. (Not that anyone should. Stay wild, rebels.) Every third post is ChatGPT carousels or prompt eBooks or how-to guides on generative AI as the new creative department. I say this with all the well-earned wisdom gleaned from my decade-plus working in every possible…

Not all of it — just the part you’re thinking about right now. — Look. What I’m about to tell you isn’t, like, a new idea. Ain’t even new to me, but today we’re going to talk about “making it.” I’ve been rolling this around since college — right around the time I first watched Matthew Lesko hawk free federal grant money in his…

On regression, self-mythology, unfulfilled promises, and learning to let it all go. — I never moved to Lisbon. I don’t suppose you thought I did, but I got really close. I had to cancel a flight and thus a house-hunt, slated for March 5–14, 2020; I don’t need to tell you why. You were alive on Earth back then. You know what happened. …

And also stupid, necessary, and everywhere — We are living in a golden age of lying. From men lying about their height on Bumble to LinkedIn gurus fudging the zeroes in their bank accounts, there’s never been a better time to bend or stretch the truth. If you want to make it in 2023, you’ve gotta be…

Pink Floyd’s singular 1973 masterpiece is more than a popular album — it’s a generational rite of passage. — In last week’s Billboard 200, SZA’s S.O.S. logged its tenth week at №1. The album’s an eclectic tour de force of modern melodic R&B; it deserves to stay perched on the top for a while. SZA’s a spellbinding, hugely talented artist. Even before making her full-length debut on 2017’s sublime…

Have we reached peak Internalized Capitalism yet? — Approximately 113 million people in the US watched the Kansas City Chiefs battle the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LXVII. [I was one of them; I love the Super Bowl.] While the game (and Rihanna!) …

Technology is evolving faster than humans can comprehend, adapt to, or regulate — “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” — Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park (1993) This’ll be a quick take because I have a workday to get on with and maybe so do you, but lemme start with…

Memories are long; life is longer. Away and back in five parts. — “Papa was born in France.” That was about the size of it. That’s what my Mama told me, in perfect English. I was maybe six years old. That, of course, was never the whole story — it never is. We don’t have time to really process the entirety of what…