An Article of the Modern Survival Guide As I have stated before at various times in this extremely long-running series, surviving in the modern world is quite different from any other period in human history for one big reason: it’s a lot more about deciding what should be done or who can do something for you than…

An Article of the Modern Survival Guide It’s time we had a word about judgment. This is a concept that is fraught with peril and negative connotations. It’s easy to be a bad judge, it’s easy to be fooled, it’s easy to fail. It is also critical, at all times and in all places, to remember that…

An Article of the Modern Survival Guide Welcome to the Modern Survival Guide! If you haven’t read one these article before, this is an article about a piece of the modern world that most likely affects you, and therefore is something you should know about. …

An Article of the Modern Survival Guide You’re reading an article of the Modern Survival Guide, a long-running blog where we talk about modern life and its challenges. In the last entry, cleverly titled “Why Populism is Bad,” we talked about why populism is bad. I do try to deliver on titles. …

An Article of the Modern Survival Guide You’re reading an article of the Modern Survival Guide, a long-running blog where we talk about modern life and its challenges. And if I’ve said it before, I’ve said it a dozen times — there are few things that will affect your quality of life in the modern world more…

An Article of the Modern Survival Guide I’ve been writing articles for the Modern Survival Guide for about four years, and a consistent refrain that any reader will take away from this series is the push to VOTE. It’s your primary, most reliable, and most powerful way to make changes in society — put the people who…

An Article of the Modern Survival Guide Let’s lay some cards on the table: I’m human, and you’re human. Right? Right. And it is human to err, right? Right. So from time to time I’m going to be wrong. So are you. We need to come to terms with that. Right. This seems like a really simple…

An Article of the Modern Survival Guide If there’s one thing that we ought to know about life at this point, it’s that no one gets out of it alive. There’s a happy thought to start your day! But seriously, not to be morbid, but we’re gonna kick the bucket, it is going to happen, and the…

An Article of the Modern Survival Guide Of the many traps that you will encounter as you meander through the dark forests of life, one of the most insidious is the concept of “magical” thinking. We have recently seen something of an upswing in this kind of thought, and it’s bloody dangerous. You should know what it…