I Want You To Speak English

Worldwide, people are struggling to cope with the deaths of so many innocents in Paris and Beirut ,  which were just two weeks after a downed Russian airline killed hundreds of people. These are just low points in the tests we face as a world in the face of attacks of both terror and military, abuses of power, and the suffering of millions of people around the globe that we don’t hear about and never will. It’s easy to believe that the world is evil and to fear that our race is doomed to end in destruction. However, the laws of nature suggest that people are inherently good, and a small subset of the world’s population makes us all look bad. We see it every day on the news and social media, stories of atrocities that make us feel fear, grief, anger and hopelessness. Those of us who want to fear hope must search for it, then. I recently came across a great speech found near the end of a movie called The Great Dictator ,   which was written, produced, directed s...

Justin Sullivan/Getty When 23-year-old Brandon headed from Massachusetts to the Bay Area in mid-May to start work as a software engineer at Google, he opted out of settling into an overpriced San Francisco apartment. Instead, he moved into a 128-square-foot truck. The idea started to formulate while Brandon — who asked to withhold his last name and photo to maintain his privacy on campus — was interning at Google last summer and living in the cheapest corporate housing offered: two bedrooms and four people for about $65 a night (roughly $2,000 a month), he told Business Insider. "I realized I was paying an exorbitant amount of money for the apartment I was staying in — and I was almost never home," he says. "It's really hard to justify throwing that kind of money away. You're essentially burning it — you're not putting equity in anything and you're not building it up for a future — and that was really hard for me to reconcile." Brandon Brandon lives ...