It’s raining in the highest place in Greenland. It never has. Rain melts ice. There is already a massive river of cold, fresh water pouring off of the largest island on the planet, something we all should be aware of, though I’m pretty sure it’s too late.

All we can do, at this point, is watch.

No one says this, but read between the lines of the science, of those who are out there measuring and watching the changes. They know. This era is over, the Industrial Age. The age of stuff, more and more stuff. You’re surrounded by it…

I’m 66 and for some reason I can’t stop writing and publishing stuff here. 30,000 people read an article I wrote last week. A few dozen read most of them. But when I look at the sheer quantity of my articles, over 400, I wonder if this has become a compulsion.

Yes, I make a few bucks at it. But any reasonable business person would know that my per word rate is absurdly low, single digit cents at best. Certainly not a motivation to bang out 800–1000 words daily on any damn thing that comes to mind. …

Al Qaeda killed almost 3000 people in one day twenty years ago. Last year 400,000 Americans died from a pandemic that the leader of the country first tried to ignore, then denied, then did almost nothing. Other than lose an election and incite an attempt to overturn the legitimate elected government for his own purposes.

Fortunately he did not succeed. What he did succeed at was dividing the nation more than it has been since the Civil War. And he continues to feed the flames of that division, for his own benefit.

Not the benefit of the country, his benefit.

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Biden got pissed and gave into reality by finally mandating vaccines and testing. It’s nothing new or unprecedented. Vaccine mandates were common and they helped cure diseases like polio and smallpox. All fifty states have vaccine mandates on their books. Yes, including those led by politicians screaming about freedom. But the manufactured Republican outrage came immediately and, as expected, irrationally.

The fact is that our country, economy, and healthcare is being held hostage by those who will not take responsibility by taking simple safe measures to protect themselves and those around them. This has nothing to do with personal freedom.

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As a reader and a writer, I think about what interests me and why something might interest others. And I think I’ve learned something about why some articles get read and others don’t.

The vast majority of things in my feed sound either boring or desperately unoriginal and imitative, like those terrible titles regarding earnings ‘secrets’. The writers I follow, who not coincidentally have big followings, fit their writing into one or more of the categories in my title.

What they don’t do is write the same article over and over, or copy others in the hope that they can…

I’m trying something to accommodate things that interest me, but that I may not write about, or that simply inspire bigger ideas. I read a lot, consume too much news, obsess about weather, and write a lot.

I’m not inclined to bore readers with my story, unless I think I have something to say. I write about writing, politics, creativity, mindfulness, climate, and personal development. The occasional cooking story might sneak in.

Like a lot of writers, I keep a tickler file, an ongoing Doc where I make notes about ideas, save interesting quotes, and sketch out approaches. It’s an…

There is a huge bet being made by the Trump GOP and it appears to be a losing one. On the one hand, they claim to be protecting innocent fetuses with their draconian anti-abortion obsession, while on the other they refuse to follow science to keep millions of kids from getting sick.

Here’s the reality they are not dealing with: over 300 kids are being hospitalized daily with Covid. That is appalling and unnecessary, but we are seeing Republican leaders in many states not only failing to protect them, but actually mandating against protecting them.

When does this start to…

Wars are very expensive. Biden says Afghanistan cost us a trillion dollars, but most experts double that. And beyond the dollars, the costs are incalculable. The lives lost, the lives changed forever, medical care for survivors, etc, etc. It’s horrifying and that’s not all we lost.

We lost the future.

You don’t have to be a genius to look across the Pacific and see unbelievable cities connected by true high speed trains that did not exist twenty years ago. Not to mention a modern military that didn’t exist either. …