Making an environment of inclusivity a motive of the group, not a task of the affected individuals.

Today has been an absolutely fascinating Saturday. Allow me to count the ways.

Robert Sapolsky gave a lecture at Stanford on the topic of major depression. For those that have no information on the disease, this video lecture is worth the time.

Hermann Hesse is one of my favorite writers. Most of his work was written in the first half of the 20th century and deals with the relationship between opposites: the secular and the religious, light and dark, knowledge and ignorance.

David Foster Wallace wrote a great piece on fiction writing that encompassed the topic of irony and self-reference within media. It's a work that helped me organize my feelings about the current state of American youth culture.