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Sure, Civilization Is Crumbling, but Did You See the Game Last Night?
There are few moments that I’ll never forget: marrying my incredible wife Anna on the Bayou St. John bridge, the birth of our child Eugene. But the best moments of them all? Nothing tops the New Orleans Saints ending 50 years of misery by winning the Superbowl in 2009 and Liverpool wiping out a 30-year…
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With AI, I Now Use 93% Less of My Brain
Everyone has an opinion about AI — it’ll replace us, it’ll make us lazy, it’s best used as a tool to be more productive. But ever since I outsourced as much of my cognitive function to ChatGPT — I call him ChadGPT, Chad for short, cause he’s so epic — things have been easier. Not…
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Super Bowl Brings Louisiana Exactly What It Needs: A Distraction from the Real Issues
Did you hear? New Orleans is hosting the Super Bowl this year! What a time to live in Crescent City! Nothing says “welcome to our city” quite like the Gestapo-esque sweeping of homeless people into “temporary housing camps.” Our state has decided that the best way to address homelessness isn’t by, you know, offering them…
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Will the FTC’s New Rules Protect You From Fake Reviews?
Have you ever searched for a product you’re interested in but know little about? Let’s say you want to buy a portable solar panel for your next road trip but don’t know what’s on the market. You type in Google, “Best portable solar panels.” Google will then produce a list of sponsored products (which hopefully…
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Dopamine Goblin: My Struggles with Video Game Addiction
My parents were relatively strict with our gaming screen time when I was growing up. I didn’t get my first game system until 1998, when I was around 11 years old. My first game was Pokemon Red on the GameBoy Color. On my first day with the handheld console, I played until past my bedtime, using a flashlight so I didn’t…
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Venice: The Disneyfication of Everything
On the slab wall of a random building in the narrow alleyways of Venice, someone wrote the sentence in black Sharpie, “Tourists bring litter the fun.” It was one of the first little things I noticed when I wandered the streets, an instant summary of the clash so many cities that rely on tourism face.…
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Where it all began… Pt. 4: My Cannonball Moment?
Though the first year was another humbling experience, overall, I deemed it a success simply because I made it through. Though I still didn’t have the training I needed to deal with many of the deeper issues I mentioned in my previous post, I felt more supported by the staff at Jesuit. For what it’s…
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Where It All Began… Pt. 3: Freshmen Teacher at Jesuit
I entered as a freshman teacher at Jesuit High School in 2018 the same way I started all of my jobs, with a sense of naive excitement. Jesuit is considered by many to be the best high school for boys in New Orleans. Living in New Orleans as a Jesuit alum is the equivalent to…
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Where it all began… Pt. 1
Ever since people began asking me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I never really had an answer. Well, actually, when I was in 1st grade, I heard that garbage men make a lot of money. In my head, a lot of money means “the same amount as a doctor.” So,…