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Now that grad school is over, I can offer some pithy assessment. I'll be stentorian and stoic when I give my speech, but here's some fun.

Why 13? Because I like that number, fuck you. :)

1. Absolutely do not apply for, pay for, and attend graduate classes unless you can see a career ahead of you that the additional degree will help you achieve. You do not want to feel like you're spinning your wheels in the mud. [READ MORE]

It has occurred to me that a lot of the times we criticize people for their actions (note, I said 'actions' not beliefs) we are essentially saying one of two things: be like me or don't be like me (if you believe you are prone to failure with respect to certain things). [READ MORE]

Whenever someone applies to a job, the posting or application mentions qualifications needed to apply. If the job is writing about race or gender or sexuality etc professionally, you have to show you know what the hell you're talking about. Back in the pre-net days, you couldn't just spout your own thoughts about it for everyone to see (like I do now). [READ MORE]

We're all biased. And bias isn't necessarily harmful. We're biased towards our friends and family. We're biased towards our favorite sports teams, movies, books and tv shows. We're biased towards the brands of food we prefer. And biased against all the things we don't. [READ MORE]

So it's “May Day” today.

Instead of being really dumb and giving up my meager paycheck to be a nuisance, I'm going to send the same message to you I have to my family friends who have been eager to help.

You've seen me post about my fundraising for the marathon, and so here's your chance – the chance for you, the peers I value the most – to toss these kids a few dollars so that they can have a better shot to grow up healthy. I'm aware many of you are not well-funded these days, and neither am I, but even as a very independent guy, raising these funds for Team for Kids is simply not a solo effort. I'm accomplishing a lot this year, the biggest year of my life thus far, but I do need a little help from my friends to get by. [READ MORE]

This is just for fun. First, watch this video and laugh.

Second, now we're going to do something similar.

You need to think of three (real) people with whom you could be associated by others for some reason. I am ruling out nationality because there are so many people in this country. Heh. [READ MORE]

This is just for fun. First, watch this video and laugh.

Second, now we're going to do something similar.

You need to think of three (real) people with whom you could be associated by others for some reason. I am ruling out nationality because there are so many people in this country. Heh. [READ MORE]

I keep mentioning this to some of you but most of you don't know what I'm talking about. My friends who have known me for many years know this to be true.


I want to share with you a bit of what it was like inside my head when I thought in a negative manner. [READ MORE]

So, I guess it was inevitable that I fire off a note about this for everyone to chime in on, so here it goes.


I talk a lot about pop culture, but I think you will all agree that I call out unfair depictions of POCs whenever I see them. [READ MORE]

I posted about this before, but this is slightly different. I want us to talk about our limitations. No, this will not, I repeat will not, be an excuse to throw up our hands to declare things a limit just so we can give up on them. But part of being an adult – and we are all adults – is knowing what we can excel at, and what limitations we have. We can also learn what obstacles we can overcome and which we can't. [READ MORE]