Role Reboot

Why ‘Participation Trophies’ Matter: Everyone Needs To Feel Validated

Without recognition for the daily effort we’re putting in, what kind of reward can most of us look forward to? My daughter is practicing her somersaults. She doesn’t quite have it down yet: she crouches, tucks her head, then rolls onto her side and giggles. “You’re working hard on that,” I observe. “I’m proud of […]

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Accept My Facebook Addiction

It involves a nervous breakdown, and trying to come to terms with open vulnerability. We are obsessed with it, and we obsess over why we’re so obsessed with it. “There is something undeniably totalitarian about the combination of mass media, Web, and social media,” that great social networking grouch Jonathan Franzen once (or twenty times) […]