The Snooze Button Generation

Welcome to Joe Stevens' blog! Enjoy this educator/journalist's take on modern living and pop culture from a Gen X perspective.

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Cleveland: Grit and magic

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As this blog is posted, my Cleveland Guardians are on the brink of their season. It all might end today — or not. But either way, I must say...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Facebook's monopoly needs to end

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Editor's Note: The Snooze Button Generation originally published "100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend" in 2019. As we read more b...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Searching for Sasquatch

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Apparently, I find it a good idea to camp — like sleep in a tent — every 36 years. I recently camped with a group of five at Pfeiffer Big Su...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Dad wisdom sneaks in at Sunset

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I stumbled across something unexpected a month ago, and it caught my eye. It was a tiny, makeshift memorial in Sunset Beach. A handful of ro...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Chloe improves this blog

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Editor's Note: Snooze Button Generation founder and CEO Joe Stevens is insisting on including three quoted sources in each blog entry no...
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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Meaningful work combats cortisol

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In his famous 2008 book Outliers , Malcolm Gladwell asserts that the three key components of meaningful work are autonomy, complexity and a ...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Attention doesn't equal cool

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Editor's Note: Although a lot of the focus of this blog entry is the deleting of the Pokemon Go app, Snooze Button Generation founder an...
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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Creative nonfiction at its highest level

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Editor's Note: The Snooze Button Generation originally published "100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend" in 2019. As we read more b...
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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Pokemon goes into addiction

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One glorious Saturday afternoon in November 2013 , I stumbled across a Lord of the Rings pinball machine for sale at Cal Bowl in Lakewood. I...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Alive at 27?

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Happy New Year! ... And now let's talk about dead rock stars. OK. It might seem like an odd topic as Baby New Year slides down the firef...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Gen X college holds own vs. Gen Z

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It's time for me to battle Sophie. Mano y mano. I grew up on games and competition, and we played constant board games, cards and HORSE....
Friday, November 1, 2024

Let's do the Time Warp again

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It's astounding. Time is fleeting. Oh thank God, the 2024 Presidential Election will end — hopefully, maybe — this week, and I'm not...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Active aging enables freedom

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Well, another year has sped by in my aging process, and I turned 51 on Friday. I'm loving this aging thing and have accidentally committ...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The art of overachievement

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It feels great to overachieve. But what does that even mean? Achievement and goals can be tricky to gauge because we usually move the goalpo...
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