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...
by adminwaikiki | Mar 29, 2026 | Blog
What if a society became so committed to fairness that it decided parents should no longer raise their own children? That is the chilling premise behind Progeny, a dystopian novel written by Dr. Peter Weiss, built on a brutal idea: in the name of equity, every newborn...
by adminwaikiki | Mar 13, 2026 | Blog
Recently on MindTricks Radio, I had a lively conversation with author and speaker Carla Ondrasik about a surprisingly powerful idea: the difference between trying and doing. At first glance it sounds like semantics. After all, isn’t trying the first step toward doing?...
