Nick Kossovan

Yes, Boomers experienced lower home prices. They also lived a lifestyle most Millennials would never accept.

The moral outrage calling for more genuine humanity is, strangely but unsurprisingly, highly selective. It is the same performative tremble, the same collective amnesia, that we bring to the digital world. We live in a culture built on curated hypocrisy. Every morning, we step into a world meticulously engineered to deceive us, and we willingly pay a premium for that deception. Much of what surrounds us is manufactured. We slice into a loaf of supermarket bread proudly stamped ‘artisanal,’ ignoring the factory where it was mixed with mechanical paddles and baked on a conveyor belt. We heat canned soup labelled ‘homemade,’ half-convinced by a rustic font that some mythical grandmother spent her morning chopping celery in a sunlit kitchen. We surround ourselves with mass-produced plastic junk that inevitably ends up in landfills or floating in the ocean, suffocating sea turtles, while succumbing to marketing propaganda that hints at small-batch, limited-run, and handcrafted.

Think you're in control of your job search? You're not. The hiring process's an employer's market by design. Here's how to stop begging for a job, master the three pillars of proving your value to an employer, and become the candidate employers will not want to pass up on.

Success isn't about making perfect choices; it's about making a choice and then managing the outcome.

Your resume and LinkedIn profile have only one job: Make the reader say to themselves, “I've got to meet this person!”

Overheard while riding an elevator: “It’s in your mindset that you can’t do it so you don’t!”

Social Media Being the Leading Source of News Should Scare Us

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” - William J. Clinton

An employee’s value = Their influence on their employer’s profitability.

Twenty-somethings rock designer threads but sleep in childhood bedrooms. This fiercely honest essay drops the hammer on fake wealth, lazy excuses, and the parenting culture coddling a fragile generation.

With school now officially out for summer, at least in my neck of the woods, watching Alice Cooper perform "School's Out" in 1978 on The Muppet Show seems appropriate.

If your job search strategy is 'applying online and praying,' you don’t have a strategy—you have a lottery habit.

Some creators sell hope. Some sell certainty. Nick Kossovan built a 22,000-subscriber publication that sells reality.

Not getting hired isn't proof that an employer's hiring process is broken.

One of the hardest decisions employers are making right now is which costs to absorb, which to cut or handle more cheaply, and which to pass along.

If cats could text back, they wouldn’t.