“Strengths-Based Assessment” is the Same Old Repressive Schooling, Repackaged

On subordination to authority as agency and the problem with "Executive Functioning"

Apr 2 • Striving For Contentment

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January 2026

Why Urgency Is Eating Us Alive

The incessant rush to do, to make, and to play has been forced upon us. This is how we can begin to think our way out of it.

Jan 30 • Striving For Contentment

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December 2025

To Cultivate or Prepare: Why Education and Workplace Readiness are Incompatible

On the principal contradiction of U.S. schools that is driving the systematic failing of its children.

Dec 21, 2025 • Striving For Contentment

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In Defense of the AI Essay

The end-of-term paper comes back riddled with em dashes and inexplicably bolded sentences.

Dec 11, 2025 • Striving For Contentment

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November 2025

A Case Against Data-Based Decision-Making

“Data alone cannot decide which path one follows. And if one chooses to follow the wrong path, they can be sure that data-based decision making will…

Nov 9, 2025 • Striving For Contentment

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October 2025

"Something For Nothing"

Misguided reads on Gen Z's workplace values

Oct 7, 2025 • Striving For Contentment

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September 2025

You don't have Impostor Syndrome; your job just sucks!

Toward an ecological understanding of a psychological epidemic

Sep 7, 2025 • Striving For Contentment

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