I grew up in a fairly small town in Germany. A steel town. A worker’s town. A town where your path was determined at a fairly young age and then usually provided you with a…
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Networking is bullshit. Do this instead.
This post is part of an illustrous Writer’s Guild called the Western Writers League. The topic for this series was poetry. No, it was networking. Here is what Chris wrote about it. We don’t know…
My Perfect Workday
This is an essay about my perfect workday. It’s part of a series of essays published by the members of the Western Writers League. Not every day is a perfect one, but every day I…
Do What Feels Bad At First
Instant satisfaction has a tendency to trick our minds into wanting to do things that are actually very much counterproductive to our best interests. This is not to say that after reading this, I want…
Lessons about luck from a serial gold medal winning champion
Historical Fact. In the mid-eighties, there was a four-year time span in which I won a series of city championships in the 200m and 400m breaststroke. In my age group, there was no Plettenberger who…