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Last week, I said that our success in a system often means it’s tilted towards us. What I mean to say is that the systems that we live, work, and play in are arbitrary. There’s no reason they have to stay the way they are. For centuries, these
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Nod if this has happened to you before (full disclosure: I can’t see you). You might strike up a conversation with a coworker about rent prices. They’re too high! What are landlords even doing with that money? You might have a gallows-tinged laugh or two about how the
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“These aren’t people. These are animals.” Four years and a lifetime ago, Donald Trump made these racist comments about members of the gang MS-13. The way he spoke, it was easy to believe he was talking about all immigrants from Mexico. Given what we know about the man, it’
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I’m pretty quiet the first time you meet me. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say (a fact you’ll figure out after we meet a few more times). I enjoy speaking in public as much as I do talking one-on-one about a subject that
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