Author: J. Oliver Schak
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February 2022
Spontaneity: performed or occurring as a result of a sudden inner impulse or inclination and without premeditation or external stimulus. This mouth’s trip to Singapore was more improvised than spontaneous. The Omicron surge made me think better of going on a more ambitious tour of South East Asia, and I instead set out to visit…
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January 2022
The first day after I quit my job I felt an irrepressible excitement. I was jumping up and down like a kid who had just started summer break. I was not just on a break. I was on an adventure — and I was starting to take back control of my life. It’s nothing against…
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Intro
I am a millennial who left my policy-advocacy-research job at a DC non-profit to pursue random things for a year. (TY Tawn Le) That’s my vision for 2022. After crunching numbers for higher ed policymakers over 10 years and squinting at Zoom calls for 2 years, I decided it was time for a new chapter…
My Millennium Commentary 