I can always see the end of things before the beginning. And as most of the internet expresses their concerns about the end of the Twitter era, I have been more concerned with what it means for a social media platform to be at its end. Because, as we all…

How social media users push back against the policing of speech — When I was a kid, my mother would speak in pig latin whenever she needed to have an adult conversation in front of my sister and me. …

I love reading books, and as someone who reads a wide range of texts, I have a habit of drawing connections between many different genres and subject areas. In reading, I am constantly fascinated with how many authors use different words to describe the same concepts or phenomena that a…

If there is one thing I will buy, it’s a journal. At any given time, I have nearly a dozen journals in rotation. From miniature field notes journals to record my outdoor adventures and animal sightings to bulky writing notebooks and gratitude journals with years’ worth of entries. Due to…

There is no end to Spooky Season in my house, but I know only some people are on that type of time, so I have been waiting until the beginning of October to start writing about the new horror and crime series on my radar. However, in honor of the…

I don’t know about you, but for me, this has been the year of automation and artificial intelligence. Everywhere I turn, there is a new person concerned about the future of AI an, precisely, the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT projects. As I am sure you have heard by now, this…

Recently, I started an iPhone note document titled “The Words,” filled with all the words I hear so often that I hate them. This list includes the usual offenders, words like “mindfulness” and “community,” which have become so overused in the culture that they are almost meaningless. But my least…

As someone who has lived in multiple cities, whenever I move to a new place, somebody will almost always ask me how my current city compares to the previous one. And, while there was once a time when I would think about the pros and cons of living in urban…

Recently, I came across some not-so-surprising research findings about altruism in groups. Generally, altruism is defined as being selfless or virtuous in thought and deed, a positive societal trait. We want to be around people who put others before themselves or that care about humanitarian causes. …