by adminwaikiki | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog
Post-apocalyptic fiction can look, at first glance, like pure entertainment: zombies shambling through abandoned cities, asteroids hurtling toward Earth, viruses wiping out civilization, or survivors fighting over canned food in the ruins. But the genre has always...
by adminwaikiki | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog
Most of us carry around two ages. There is the official one, the number attached to our birthday, driver’s license, and increasingly rude medical forms. Then there is the age we actually feel. In a recent conversation I had with Dr. Art Markman, we explored this...
by adminwaikiki | May 16, 2026 | Blog
My recent conversation with Dr. Mathias Clasen on Mind Tricks Radio podcast got me thinking about one of the strangest pleasures in fiction: our fascination with the end of the world. I’ve been especially interested in this topic lately because of the publication of...
by adminwaikiki | May 5, 2026 | Blog
Perfectionism has a sneaky way of disguising itself as ambition. It sounds noble: I just have high standards. I want to do things well. I don’t want to settle. And honestly, there’s nothing wrong with striving. Wanting to improve, grow, learn, compete, create, or...
by adminwaikiki | Apr 22, 2026 | Blog
Perfectionism was the subject of a thoughtful conversation I had a few years ago when I interviewed Dr. Liza Wäcker for my podcast, and it is a topic that has stuck with me ever since. It is one of those issues that can look admirable from the outside, often wearing...
by adminwaikiki | Apr 10, 2026 | Blog
Identity is often talked about as if it were something fixed, almost like a hidden object buried inside us that we are supposed to discover once and for all. But a more interesting and probably more accurate way to think about it is this: identity is something the...
