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Essay: The Lost Art of Staring Into Space
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Essay: The Lost Art of Staring Into Space

It's how I spent much of my twenties.

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I mentioned this essay on the most recent edition of A Special Place In Hell, so I thought I’d post it here. It originally appeared in Medium’s GEN Magazine on May 15, 2019.

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When millennials ask me for work or life advice (and this does happen occasionally), I can feel my uselessness creeping in before I even start to …

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