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The Agency Principle, Part One: The Counterweight
One of the universal challenges of human life is that so much is out of our control. The world is a complex and often unpredictable place, and every one of us will face hardships at one point or another. Failure, disappointment, and injustice are inevitable. And it doesn’t matter how privileged or lucky a person […]
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Values: The Foundation of All the Superpowers
In 1998, the first Family Values Tour kicked off. It included Korn and Limp Bizkit, two bands that were hugely popular and widely hated at the time. As an adolescent boy who regularly had both bands’ CDs in my Discman, that tour sounded pretty cool. But I’d like to talk about a very different kind […]
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The Modern Superpowers Manifesto
What is a modern superpower? According to World Population Review, the United States, China, the European Union, India, and Russia were considered global superpowers as of 2022. But you didn’t come here for geopolitics, so I’d like to introduce a very different idea about modern superpowers. I’m a licensed social worker, and I’ve been working […]
Modern Superpowers 