The outside world is messy. It’s ridden with uncertainty, mishaps, and unrealistic expectations. A run, as a proxy for life, allows us to glean lessons of control, mental strength, and realism that we can employ mid-run and beyond.

The individual cost for a free service may be unquantifiable, but the societal damage is undeniable. The ad revenue model skews the incentives for tech platforms to optimize for engagement, even if it’s at the cost of public health.

In general, believing that you are the collective sum of your actions makes logical sense, but I think this begins to break down when we consider our moral values. What if our intended actions cast a vote for our desired self and contend with our values?

Not only do I realize an individual's life complexity, on my best days, I’m fascinated and inspired by them too. It’s this feeling that introduced me to strangers who’ve become friends and it compels me ever so more.

She pulls her knees to her chest and allows her head to slump forward. The darkness swallows her peripheral vision, and to compensate for her loss of awareness, her other senses magnify. She feels the water on her body; first as heated beads on her scalp and then as warm droplets...

As I've written before, I struggle with managing my ambition [https://www.openthoughtblog.com/with-ambition-comes-insecurity/]. Many of my

Hello, everyone! Thanks for stopping by! This week marks the start of a new blogging series called Five-hundred Fridays. For