The Problem with Using Animal Videos on LinkedIn 

Introduction: A Changing Platform  LinkedIn has evolved significantly since its inception. What started as a purely professional networking site has gradually become a platform where users also post personal anecdotes and feel-good stories—often involving animals. While some argue that these posts add a “human touch,” there are deeper implications when lighthearted animal content begins to […]

Find Your Next Favorite Book, knowing nothing about it!

Find Your Next Favorite Book—When You Don’t Know the Author, the Title, or That You Need It? One of the great, unspoken pleasures of reading is not reading at all, but searching for what to read next—that oddly thrilling state of suspension where one hovers between books, waiting for the right one to call out. […]

Suffering, Stoicism, and the Scrotum Incident

Suffering, Stoicism, and the Scrotum Incident So this is about suffering. And, more specifically, about my relationship to suffering, which has historically been one of avoidance, and which, paradoxically, has caused more suffering. Because that’s how suffering works, right? Like, it’s never the thing itself, the knife’s edge of pain, but the shadow it casts […]