Don’t ask me why I always sided with the perpetually displaced. I couldn’t tell you why. But since I was in a school setting, I played with… — Don’t ask me why I always sided with the perpetually displaced. I couldn’t tell you why. But since I was in a school setting, I played with the kids in the corners of classrooms. They got used to me not talking. My first reads were comics. I read X-men comics…

Henry had become a friend of mine when I was around 24. We went to the same college together but never met there. Instead, we first bumped… — Henry had become a friend of mine when I was around 24. We went to the same college together but never met there. Instead, we first bumped into each other at the local Strand bookstore off Union Square, both of us browsing books in the Entrepreneurship section without really purchasing…

Anyone who’s had any one single large conversation with me, knows that I generally — well — I speak my mind. This “unfiltered” set of… — Anyone who’s had any one single large conversation with me, knows that I generally — well — I speak my mind. This “unfiltered” set of texts and subtexts, also will tend to upset some people, very inevitably. It’s like this: The person I talk to goes, “this is fine.”

Since December now, I’ve been living quite permanently in Mexico. In what is an apparently impressive few months, I also became fully… — Since December now, I’ve been living quite permanently in Mexico. In what is an apparently impressive few months, I also became fully fluent in Mexican Spanish, comfortably conversing the majority of my day with my Mexican boyfriend in Spanish, over English. …

It took me getting into a fairly good spot in my life to begin to examine my mistakes deeper. Everybody makes mistakes, obviously. I knew… — It took me getting into a fairly good spot in my life to begin to examine my mistakes deeper. Everybody makes mistakes, obviously. I knew I had my own fair share of them, and when times got especially tough, I invented solutions out of necessity. …

This is going to sound both controversial and irrelevant to strategies for learning quickly, but I swear that it is foundational… — # Lesson 1 of learning quickly: just how unfair the world is. This is going to sound both controversial and irrelevant to strategies for learning quickly, but I swear that it is foundational, essential, and unavoidable. And, it’s going to take some explaining. Take, for example, every favorite strong female…

When I was 9, I vividly remember the first time I faced my own mortality; I was laying down flat, my entire small body across the length… — When I was 9, I vividly remember the first time I faced my own mortality; I was laying down flat, my entire small body across the length of the back seat of my parents’ Toyota Camry, staring up at the partly cloudy skies, sobbing. I saw the sunlight halo-ing across…

I have to admit that I’ve been told more than several times in my life, by various employers, colleagues, and friends that I learn… — I have to admit that I’ve been told more than several times in my life, by various employers, colleagues, and friends that I learn incredibly fast. I have tucked away most of my skill-set journeys from the lights of others. Yet, I have to admit they are right. I picked…

We have to ask who makes money on the failure of #BlackLivesMatter and shine a light on each of them to understand the system as a whole… — Who makes money off the failure of #BlackLivesMatter? We have to ask who makes money on the failure of #BlackLivesMatter and shine a light on each of them to understand the system as a whole, if we are to prop up our argument that something deeply wrong is occurring on…