The Origins of “Hippie”: Etymology, History and a New Curiosity
People react strongly to the word “hippie.” But what is a hippie exactly? What are the origins of hippie culture?
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Float Tank
I want it to be a surprise. Sneaking a peek at her phone directions, I knew where she was taking us. Float Tank Barrie. Having passed by the float center in Venice countless times, it was ironic that I’d do my first float in a small town outside Toronto. Kayla, my sweet love, booked it …
Content Strategy Books: A Comprehensive Reading List
Looking for the best content strategy books? I searched far and wide in my (accidental) journey of becoming a CS to develop my own content strategy reading list. While I appreciate the multitudes of content strategy reading lists floating on the web, the recommendations often lacked context. Why was the book being recommended other than …
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The 5 Planes of Content Strategy
This article for content strategy students and practitioners who are interested in the delineation between UX design and content strategy. For an introduction to content strategy, read this article. The Elements of User Experience took the world by storm when it was published in 2002 (and updated in 2010). Elements helped formalize the burgeoning UX …
Turning 30
Turning 30 is a big deal for a lot of people me. For the past couple years, I’ve done an annual recap around my birthday. At 25, I wrote down 25 lessons I learned about people Couldn’t find anything I wrote on my 26th. Guess I didn’t learn anything that year. I started off 27 …
Meditation Myths
I grew up in a Buddhist household. My family wasn’t too religious about it, but we had some Buddhist texts lying on the bookshelf. One afternoon, I picked up one of these books and tried to give it a go: All I remember was reading a passage about meditating to an image of a flower…and …
Fuck Balance
June 2015. It was my second time at EDC. I told my friends to wait for me, because I wanted to get closer to the stage. This was unusual of me, but maybe I was compelled to see Galantis or Above & Beyond up close. Halcyon days. The crowd was thick. I took a deep …
Chaos vs Order
The ages 22 to 24 were the two most confusing years of my life. I graduated from the cocoon of college, into a job I wasn’t sure about. Attempted to find hobbies so I could have a life outside work. Then I tried online dating, which was exciting and messy. In hindsight, those two years …
Beyond Good and Evil
We tend to attribute malice to things that can be better explained by the wider spectrum of human nature
