Think Piece Archive

My attempts at long(er)-form writing.

• Fixing the economy, one resume consult at a time

  I spent several hours at the Berkeley campus for a career fair last week. I spoke to 80 or so students, mostly seniors and graduate students, but also a handful of sophomores and juniors (or what they referred to as their “third year;” so pretentious). I have had some experience with resume writing — having [...]

• Busted

  Think Dr. Melfi, only much younger, like 24 or 25 years old. This was my therapy apparently. I could barely remember how I had gotten in trouble (and sentenced to therapy), but I was now glad that I had. I tried avoiding the punishment. I let the answering machine pick-up, although I always did, no [...]

• The Iraq Option

  Graduating from college, one always has options, some more enticing than others. I should already issue a correction: Unless your major studies were in the liberal arts and you did not have family connections, one always has options upon graduating from college, some more enticing than others. For me, one option was Iraq. It was [...]

• Blogging Better, And Lasting Longer

  I am by no means an expert on the subject — nor do I intend to go all self-righteous Merlin Mann on anyone — but I still have a voice on the matter, and in my opinion, a reasonably authoritative voice. Within reason that is, of course. I have found that there are two ways [...]