I’m sitting here gobsmacked after someone with a few hundred followers considers himself sufficiently experienced about writing on Medium to give other writers advice on how to succeed. I’ve also just read a couple of other articles about how others made $600 or $1500 or $2000 in a month —…
What does it mean to be civilized? Does it mean we live in a city or a town, that we are computerized and hike rocket ships to Mars? …
I’m going to start off with two stories — one refers to a comment that someone made about my Omicron story, and for the other, I draw an analogy. …
Let me be blunt. Nobody gives a damn about your life. If you insist on writing about your life, you will not be earning any money on Medium or any other site either. You’re not famous. You have not done anything spectacular. Nobody knows you, and nobody cares. In my…
Those of you who have been reading me for a while know that I have been warning about the fact that Covid-19 would mutate to become deadlier, and that our current vaccines may be worthless against it. It now seems that has happened. Let’s back up, though.
You could call…
It’s a complicated business designing new economic and political systems for our world, but it is a task that must be done. …
Those of you who have PTSD brought on by extreme trauma will understand some of what I have to say below. For the most part, I have cured PTSD. Yet some of it remains, and there are still things I’m petrified of.
I am, for instance, petrified of all real-life…
I know you’re sick of them, but like you, every now and then I’m tempted to read one of them. The one I read this morning stated that writing every day will guarantee you an income in the four-figure range. She was/is making $400 per day on her articles. She…
Controversial? Yes. Intruding on free speech? Yes. Preventing stress and civil strife? Yes.
China has banned wealthy people and celebrities from boasting about their wealth on social media. Nor will they be allowed to say things which fly in the face of science and fact. In effect, if something similar…
Perhaps the loneliness that is so dominant in our society is a result of a misunderstanding of friendship.
Many years ago, when I was still dumb and young, I read something about friendship — that you cannot force it, that it is either there or not there, that people fall…
