One of my favorite chapters in the bible is Genesis chapter 15, you can read this short account that has God and Abram in it by clicking here. …

Course correction shapes future outcomes. — Reflection is about course correction, course correction has to do with both thinking about the actions that produced good outcomes and the actions that produced negative outcomes. Consistently reflecting on your behavior is critically important to the sustained growth of relationships. Separate yourself from the emotions. Purposeful reflection allows you to exist outside of the…

The Origin Story — I get this question often: why did you create the UNJRNL? People are usually surprised by my answer I am a writer by trade. I am literally employed to do copy writing and narrative design work. I do freelance writing and I also write fiction. It’s safe to say…

Routine is more powerful than motivation. — People and their patterns have largely remained the same for thousands of years. We are creatures of compulsion and the best way to get over simply acting on our desires is to build good habits. Motivation is good but it isn’t useful. Positive habit forming is critical to a happy life characterized by consistency. Habits do an…

4 Netflix Productions That Do It Right — I’ve reached the age where I will do one of two things in response to a remake of stories that I grew up on. The first response is generally the more common response that is tainted by nostalgia and is ridiculously presumptuous “This reboot is going to be trash!” Or…

Shaping What It Means to Be Human Through Comic Books — I’m reading a lot of comic books right now and for the most part they’ve all been great. This year I am going to take a new step in my writing career and attempt to write comics myself. I have always had a philosophy about the evolution of literacy that…

Shout to the For All Nerds Show for creating the #ComicsICopped hashtag and shout out to Black Cat Comics in Milpitas CA for lacing me with some of the dopest books that I have read in a while. …

E-pets at the Intersection of Personal Data and Future Tech — I just finished the second story in The Verge’s Better Worlds series “Online Reunion,” and it was a huge departure from the first story that I read, in the best ways. …

The Verge kicked off its new story project “Better Worlds” a couple of days ago by dropping the first in a series of ten short stories that envision a future where technology is used to shape a better world. Modern science fiction stories have become synonymous with dystopian futures wherein…