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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.”...
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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