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Zach Omer
Dec 14, 20144 min read
Becoming a Better Writing Tutor With Rod Carew
Rod Carew is considered by many to be one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Over a 19-year career in the Majors, Carew was a...
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Zach Omer
Dec 4, 201412 min read
The Blueprint for a Reign
Only 45 hip-hop albums in history have been given a rating of “5 Mics” (or 5/5 stars) from The Source magazine (Golding, “…The Source’s...
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Zach Omer
Nov 18, 201419 min read
Shifts in Epistemology: How Our Thinking has Changed
Since the beginning of our existence, humans have been working tirelessly to make our lives easier. What a beautiful irony. And we have...
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Zach Omer
Oct 31, 20143 min read
Journal #9: Faster Isn't Always Better
Benjamin Barber’s chapter on “Infantilizing Consumers” is stuffed full of interesting points regarding the current trivial and childish...
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Zach Omer
Oct 29, 20141 min read
Love Hurts
How can just a feeling, so naturally intangible, be constantly expanding, but still not understandable? How can simple emotion, no...
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Zach Omer
Oct 24, 20143 min read
Journal #8: Infantilization and the Dangers of Consumerism
The main focus of Benjamin Barber’s first chapter of Consumed is the infantilist ethos that has taken hold of our society. Barber says...
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Zach Omer
Oct 24, 20141 min read
Poetry: The Tormenter
When you’re feeling misguided by all of your vices, I’m the hidden disguise of identity crisis. You take my advice if you’re not feeling...
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Zach Omer
Oct 17, 20143 min read
Journal #7: Evolution Takes Patience
We live in a very impatient world. It’s a world where people distribute their time by the second. If a video pauses before loading, many...
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Zach Omer
Oct 10, 20143 min read
Journal #6: Breaking the Buzz
In one of the final chapters of The Shallows, I reflected on a line from page 218: “Conscious craft turns into unconscious routine.”...
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Zach Omer
Oct 3, 20143 min read
Journal #5: The Triviality of Social Media
One of my favorite analogies in Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows comes on page 124, when Carr says, “Imagine filling a bathtub with a...
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