Posts by Steven Rouk

There is a parable floating around the animal rights movement. It goes something like this. ... Parable of Horses and Cars Horses used to be the main form of transportation…

It’s important to talk about negative emotions. We all feel them at one point or another: sadness, anger, disappointment, frustration, loneliness. Sometimes they’re small feelings that we can easily manage.…

First of all, the title “Space Analysis” sounds really epic, doesn’t it? Like we're going to be cosmologists or meta-astronauts analyzing outer space. We're not going to be doing that.…

As activists, we tend to want to solve things. Sometimes, we take this a little too far and think “I must solve everything myself.” This is true of programmers, compassion…

This is the second article we’ve posted about ideas for fostering innovation in the movement. You can read the first article here—Imagine: LA Vegan Meat Competition. If you wanted to…

What did it take to pass Prop 12 in California this past November, making it “the strongest law in the world protecting farm animals from extreme confinement”? Maybe we start…

There are two ways to have an idea. The first way, you think of something—maybe an idea for a mobile app to help people go vegan. You spend a week…

Do you have a narrative for your life and what you’re doing that motivates and empowers you? The Importance of Narrative The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren is towards the…

I have a concept I like to call “recovery in motion”. It started out with running. Running is a rather paradoxical thing—it’s basically pure, nonstop physical suffering, but yet there’s…

2018 is over. 2019 is before us. So where are we? This article is a little different, but I hope you enjoy it. It’s my wandering ode to the changing…