Another month has gone by and what an incredible month it was! For the month of February 2016 I posted 12 times I wrote eight original articles Conservatively speaking (I rounded all word totals down) I wrote over 11,000 words, not including blog updates and lazy posts! Promoted to and through the usual suspects of…
ASAPThought has a video that has “working too hard” as its second regret. See here: This research is based originally off of this blog post which says: 2. I wish I didn’t work so hard. This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke…
I’m really excited about this viewership ceiling we just broke. It’s all thanks Joseph_Ratliff who shared 5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Work Too Hard” by Brigid Schulte on the SimpleLiving subreddit! Thank you!
A piece by the Guardian UK’s Peter Fleming called Work is no cure for illness - the 24/7 culture is making us sick makes many interesting points while highlighting a then recent story. Ian Smith, a conservative party politician announced back in the summer of 2015 that he planned on having people fund their own…
When you’re learning about the USSR in school it’s a lot different from when you’re reading about it in a book. I know that seems fairly obvious but sometimes it just hits you that schools skimp out on the smaller details…and sometimes for good reason. There was actually time when I questioned to one extent…
Just like I did with Working Stiff Manifesto I’ll divide particularly long or involved chapters into parts. This is not only so I can make digesting them a bit easier for both me and you, the reader. But also because I don’t want all of my articles on books to be 3000 words or more,…
I’m very happy to announce that the radical small-scale book publisher and distributor Little Black Cart has accepted my book proposal. What does this mean? Well basically, they like my idea of a book and want to help me make it come to fruition. I had a very positive and encouraging conversation with someone from…
Rob Lucas, a programmer, posted in the New Left Review 62 of March-April 2010 writes that, This morning, floating through that state between sleep and consciousness in which you can become aware of your dreams as dreams immediately before waking, I realized that I was dreaming in code again. This has been occurring on and…
Sorry for all of the quiet lately, I had been working on my talk for the Alternatives Exposition on prison abolition and that was something I needed to focus on nearly 24/7 in this last week before AltExpo itself. Anyways, I’m happy to say AltExpo was successful and my talk went well! I’ll hopefully publish…
Fun Fact: I make fun of myself a lot. I mean, more than your average person does. Sometimes I’ll just use it as a “clever” way to deflect compliments, other times as a shoddy way to make a cheap joke and I’ll even include it in sentences where I’m explaining how I insult myself a…