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How You Can Subvert a Trump-Like Boss
Surely everyone has worked for a jerk before, but I feel my travels through that universal experience contain an extra value. See, an executive that I worked for years ago (we’ll call her Jessica, not her real name) was extremely similar to current USA President and Wannabe Dictator Donald Trump. Their behaviors, their attitudes, their quirks,…
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Your Actions Matter
Every time someone protests in some way, someone is there to tell them it makes no difference. I disagree. Every action makes a difference in its own space. Is one activity going to dismantle an entire corrupt system? No. But there’s no other way to get there except via these small steps of actions. Every…
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Book Review: Martyr!
I’m not usually a literary genre person but I saw the hype about Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and gave it a try. PROS: Interesting perspective of Iranian man. He comes to the USA and has common problems (fitting in as a gay man, battling addiction, struggling with injustice.) The repeated mentions of the US Navy…