InILLUMINATIONbyJoseph N. Aburu·Oct 14The Simplest Sentence Can Become the One You RememberI used to think memorable writing had to sound impressive. Writing slowly taught me otherwise.A response icon2A response icon2
InILLUMINATIONbyJoseph N. Aburu·Oct 10We Are Raising a Generation That Knows How to Go Viral but Not How to ThinkThe fact that someone can become popular without really saying anything meaningful should raise concern.
InBouncin’ and Behavin’ BlogsbyJoseph N. Aburu·Aug 28The Day I Realized My Favorite Movie Wasn’t About the HeroI thought I loved the movie because of the man who refused to give up.
InILLUMINATIONbyJoseph N. Aburu·Aug 28I Didn’t Know I Was Saying Goodbye to My ChildhoodComing to America was just a funny movie for me when I was younger.
InBouncin’ and Behavin’ BlogsbyJoseph N. Aburu·Aug 27AI May Not Kill Writing, But Give More Writers a Second Life.What if the technology we fear will replace writers ends up helping more of us keep writing?
InILLUMINATIONbyJoseph N. Aburu·Aug 26Some Things We Loved as Children Were Never Actually That GoodGrowing up does something strange to our memories. Sometimes we don’t miss the thing itself. We miss the person we were when we loved it.A response icon1A response icon1
InBouncin’ and Behavin’ BlogsbyJoseph N. Aburu·Aug 25The Fictional Character Who Understood Me Before I Understood MyselfI thought I loved Spider-Man because he was a superhero.
InThe Daily DraftbyJoseph N. Aburu·Aug 24The Internet Gave Me a Writing Community, And Also Gave Me a Thousand Reasons to Doubt MyselfIt also helped me find my voice while tempting me to measure it against everyone else’s.A response icon4A response icon4
InBouncin’ and Behavin’ BlogsbyJoseph N. Aburu·Aug 19Building a Framework Is Teaching Me to Think Differently About CodeLevelo JS is changing the way I think about architecture, developers, and what it really means to build software
InBouncin’ and Behavin’ BlogsbyJoseph N. Aburu·Aug 18The Problem With Making Everything a FranchiseSomewhere along the way, Hollywood stopped asking whether a story had more to say and started asking what could come next.