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Franz Kafka’s Best Friend

Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity.
Genuine confidence is not about living mistake-free, with nothing bad happening. It’s about making good things happen and improving the bad things that will happen.
Confidence in an interview is not a personality trait reserved for extroverts. It is a set of behaviours that signal ...
With a squad of such quality, our head coach now has the scope to affect games from the bench — as we saw on Saturday!
The revolutionaries in Silicon Valley are no longer storming the gates. They’re inside the castle, polishing the silverware.
History shows the path we are now on leads inexorably to tyranny. The actions taken by Trump seem designed to incite violence ...
Of those 56 headlines, 21 involved foreign nationals — illegal aliens, almost all of them. Of the 25 press releases ...
According to a recent study, the average expert doesn't believe in Silicon Valley's ambitious rapid progress timeline.
What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...
In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the ...
The basal nature of how we pine for gear may be nothing new, but the way in which we are marketed to certainly is, creating a ...
Telling someone "don't worry" or "you'll be fine" when they're struggling isn't comfort. It's rejection in disguise.