What Rhetoric Taught Me About Positive Thinking
In all of my life, the two questions I get that will always bring a smile to my face are “what is a Behzod?” and “what the heck is rhetoric?” While the former was one I heard a lot during my youth in...
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Spilling wine all over my shirt
Two weeks ago, I was poking around on Tumblr when I came across Noah Emrich’s photo of himself in a shirt he had cut the collar off and hand dyed. I enjoy the time and energy that people put into...
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Day-tripping to Bainbridge
I love Bainbridge Island. From a tourist perspective, it’s probably quite boring because the downtown area is small and always under construction, and most of the gems on the island are quite spread...
View ArticleAlways Have the Bottle Ready: My Reflections on Yesterday’s Kony 2012 Panel
Foreword: This is not an analysis of the Kony 2012 campaign. These are merely some thoughts about a discussion that took place yesterday. For a richer discussion, turn to some of the people I’ve...
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“I think you’d be good at it.”
On Saturday, I was part of something incredible. TEDxYouth@Seattle was an event that has taken me on one of the greatest emotional roller coasters of my life, but on Saturday, all of that was forgotten...
View ArticleA Brief Reflection on Digital Dualism
Note: Cross-posted at Cyborgology It feels like every time I’m at a gathering of social researchers, within 15 minutes of being there I’ll hear the words “digital world” and “real world” being used to...
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Infatuation with Social
If you have ever watched someone learn how to play drums, you often observe three phases. The first phase, immersion, involves them learning the basic sticking patterns, developing a sense of rhythm,...
View ArticleI don’t care what you think about climate change
For the past few months, I have spent the majority of my waking hours on Chasing Ice, an award-winning documentary about photographer James Balog’s quest to capture visual evidence of glaciers before...
View ArticleSandberg & Slaughter v. Feminism
I’m not female, and I’ve spent little time in the “workplace” or balancing work and life, so I don’t feel very qualified to speak about the conversation that’s taking place involving the current state...
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There is no “perfect” tweet
Earlier today on Twitter, the brilliant (and comical) Faris Yakob tweeted about a piece from Marketing Chap titled “Why blueprints for the perfect tweet are perfectly absurd”. Even before reading the...
View ArticleWhy Americans Can’t Die with Dignity
“It’s certainly possible that I could have a terrible car accident and become so badly brain damaged that I don’t care about the burden that I’m placing on other people, but I don’t want that...
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