Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

We’ve all heard by now that Facebook isn’t exactly the safest place to share personal data. Those apps that masquerade as games are actually gathering data, Facebook is listening in to your conversations, and well…basically the app exists to gather data for third parties. If you’re worried that your settings need to be shored up...

Unless you’re a science fiction writer (or enthusiast), you probably don’t spend too much time thinking about what, exactly, humans might look like in the future. Most of us probably assume they’ll look and act a lot like we do now, since evolution takes millennia to really change anything, anyway. So, it’s probably going to...

There are all sorts of reactions to posts on the internet – righteous outrage, solidarity, social change – but for most of us, I think it’s a place we know we can go when we need to blow off some steam. You know, when we need a laugh. If you ask me, the best of...

For some people, the world and morality are black and white. Things are wrong or not, moral or not, and there’s no wiggle room or space to negotiate in the middle. For other people, the world is more gray, and whether or not something is wrong can depend on who you’re dealing with, and maybe...

They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure – in fact, that’s really what the entire concept of garage sales is based on – but most of us can count on one hand (or one finger or less) how many times we’ve unearthed literal treasures in our neighbor’s garage. Sometimes, though, people just...

We all know that it’s easier to see the problems in a relationship from outside of it – our friends and family usually know before we do whether or not our current love interest seems like the one or not. That said, things have to be pretty obviously wrong for the people who live in...

When people are down and out, depressed, lost, or otherwise searching for answers, that can make them vulnerable to others who prey on folks like that, looking to earn a few bucks off their uncertainty and doubt. And while some people find life coaches helpful or even call them lifesavers, from the outside, the industry...

Do you have friends who are night owls to your early bird? Are you up at odd hours for one reason or another and don’t think before firing off a text or sharing a video with a friend who might be asleep? In our global culture, I’m willing to be this happens more often then...

You know that thing where people think that, because of your job, you have this wide breadth of knowledge that they should be able to tap into whenever they need? I think it happens in many professions, but probably is super prevalent when it comes to computers and software – because we all deal with...

Anyone who has ever been through a bad breakup knows that functioning in the hours and days immediately afterward can be rough. You’re thinking about other things, probably going through those first stages of grief, and suddenly forced to imagine a future you hadn’t considered. And yet, unlike a death or some other major life...

In an ideal world, every single kid who wants to go to college would have help paying for school, be it from family members or the government or the school they plan to attend. In reality, there are lots and lots of students who have to figure out how to make financing an education work...

We hear a lot these days about climate change and global warming, and about how we all need to do our part to turn this ship around before it’s too late for our kids and grandkids to even survive in some semblance of what we’ve enjoyed. That said, if you do some reading and get...

What are we really talking about when we discuss income equality within society? Does that really mean that it doesn’t matter how much money we all make as long as it’s the same? All poor is the same as all comfortable, or all well off? This person is wondering whether or not a baseline “good”...

I think the United States is coming to a real reckoning over the way that, for the past four or five decades, we have pushed college degrees on every single person who matriculates from high school. Even as the internet has broadened what’s possible as far as potential careers and sources of income, high school...

Human beings love a good mystery. We love to put on our detective caps, to act like we know how to solve a crime, or that we would have seen it coming, and most of us can guess who the bad guy is before it’s revealed to us by the narrator of the show. In...