The Snooze Button Generation

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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Foodies packed their knives and went

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What ever happened to foodies? At this point, I'm pretty sure the term "foodie" is outdated. I don't really hear it any mo...
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Playing gin rummy with the deceased

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I find myself at the Chippewa Lake cottage, and I'm sitting at a card table with my dad, the XMan. I touch the top of this card table, a...
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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Gen Xers must resist the distraction economy

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"I'm working, but I'm not working for you. Slack mother******!" Well, Happy New Year, Gen Xers! Something hit me the other...
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Monday, December 1, 2025

Jay Stor spirals into gambling madness

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The adage goes: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." However, my buddy Jay had such an extraordinary time there recently that I...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

This special league is lit

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I've laced up my Pumas. I'm donning a '90s indie rock T-shirt (tonight it's Pavement). I'm at the Long Beach Beer Lab fo...
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...
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