• HOME

  • Overview

  • Fortnight Solutions

  • Current Gigs

  • Diving into Politics

  • News Media

  • Past Writing/Brief Contributor Gigs

  • More...

    • All Posts
    • Rambler Newspapers
    • Political Thoughts
    • The Black Sheep
    • Hard Times
    • Politics Aside Online
    • Last Word on Pro Football
    • Political B*tchings
    • Favorites
    • News Aggregator
    • Free-writing
    • Facebook
    • Food for Thought
    • Dallas
    • Sports
    • Golf
    • Politics
    • Silly Goose Time
    • Mental Health
    • Business
    • Poetry/Future Music
    • Pop Culture
    • Love
    • Writing
    • Weak attempts at philosophizing
    • COVID-19
    • Media Talk
    Search
    A Slight Knock on the Self-Help Industry
    Matthew Hirst
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    A Slight Knock on the Self-Help Industry

    Self-help is great, but so much of it is an illusion and unethical marketing. Remember how I’ve been talking a lot lately about how the w...
    10 views0 comments
    Matthew Hirst
    • Aug 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Who Am I: Food For Thought - Journal Entry #7

    There’s a famous quote that talks of two paths diverging in a wood. If only I had so few paths, I feel life might be a little easier to...
    2 views0 comments
    Writers, and Moving On.                              Food for Thought - Journal Entry #6
    Matthew Hirst
    • May 13, 2020
    • 2 min

    Writers, and Moving On. Food for Thought - Journal Entry #6

    One of the few Dallas news writers I actually like and pay attention to was let go this week I probably should have appreciated more of h...
    6 views0 comments
    Where’s Our Soul? Food for Thought - Journal Entry #5
    Matthew Hirst
    • May 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Where’s Our Soul? Food for Thought - Journal Entry #5

    You couldn’t do a better job of portraying how blindly partisan this country is than with the Ahmaud Arbery murder and commentary since. ...
    4 views0 comments
    Matthew Hirst
    • May 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Food for Thought - Journal Entry #4

    Can I talk some shit real quick? How were so many people out there soooo confident in the claim that masks couldn't potentially help slow...
    1 view0 comments
    Matthew Hirst
    • May 12, 2020
    • 1 min

    Food for Thought - Journal Entry #3

    How long before television ads are as personalized of an experience as advertising is within social media apps or internet browsers? I ca...
    0 views0 comments
    Food for Thought - Journal Entry #2
    Matthew Hirst
    • May 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    Food for Thought - Journal Entry #2

    Look, I understand people’s excitement about the right to vote, but it frustrates me when you try to put that on me. People pretend the o...
    0 views0 comments
    Matthew Hirst
    • May 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    Food for Thought - Journal Entry #1

    I think I was down about life for a long time because I didn’t realize how many ways you could go about the business side of things. I fe...
    0 views0 comments
    {"items":["5f4fdc2066a2f5002daf4e66","5f331087ae82250017f3fcd6","5ebc16be243a7b0017a1ab07","5ebb11f0229b520017918e50","5ebb11a162eb66001706aa73","5ebb116c85b320001771c409","5ebb10d58019ca0017aeaa8f","5ebb0f9463e136001748e555"],"styles":{"galleryType":"Columns","groupSize":1,"showArrows":true,"cubeImages":true,"cubeType":"fill","cubeRatio":1.3333333333333333,"isVertical":true,"gallerySize":30,"collageAmount":0,"collageDensity":0,"groupTypes":"1","oneRow":false,"imageMargin":32,"galleryMargin":0,"scatter":0,"rotatingScatter":"","chooseBestGroup":true,"smartCrop":false,"hasThumbnails":false,"enableScroll":true,"isGrid":true,"isSlider":false,"isColumns":false,"isSlideshow":false,"cropOnlyFill":false,"fixedColumns":1,"enableInfiniteScroll":true,"isRTL":false,"minItemSize":50,"rotatingGroupTypes":"","rotatingCropRatios":"","columnWidths":"","gallerySliderImageRatio":1.7777777777777777,"numberOfImagesPerRow":1,"numberOfImagesPerCol":1,"groupsPerStrip":0,"borderRadius":0,"boxShadow":0,"gridStyle":1,"mobilePanorama":false,"placeGroupsLtr":false,"viewMode":"preview","thumbnailSpacings":4,"galleryThumbnailsAlignment":"bottom","isMasonry":false,"isAutoSlideshow":false,"slideshowLoop":false,"autoSlideshowInterval":4,"bottomInfoHeight":0,"titlePlacement":"SHOW_ON_THE_RIGHT","galleryTextAlign":"center","scrollSnap":false,"itemClick":"nothing","fullscreen":true,"videoPlay":"hover","scrollAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","slideAnimation":"SCROLL","scrollDirection":0,"scrollDuration":400,"overlayAnimation":"FADE_IN","arrowsPosition":0,"arrowsSize":23,"watermarkOpacity":40,"watermarkSize":40,"useWatermark":true,"watermarkDock":{"top":"auto","left":"auto","right":0,"bottom":0,"transform":"translate3d(0,0,0)"},"loadMoreAmount":"all","defaultShowInfoExpand":1,"allowLinkExpand":true,"expandInfoPosition":0,"allowFullscreenExpand":true,"fullscreenLoop":false,"galleryAlignExpand":"left","addToCartBorderWidth":1,"addToCartButtonText":"","slideshowInfoSize":200,"playButtonForAutoSlideShow":false,"allowSlideshowCounter":false,"hoveringBehaviour":"NEVER_SHOW","thumbnailSize":120,"magicLayoutSeed":1,"imageHoverAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imagePlacementAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","calculateTextBoxWidthMode":"PERCENT","textBoxHeight":0,"textBoxWidth":200,"textBoxWidthPercent":50,"textImageSpace":10,"textBoxBorderRadius":0,"textBoxBorderWidth":0,"loadMoreButtonText":"","loadMoreButtonBorderWidth":1,"loadMoreButtonBorderRadius":0,"imageInfoType":"ATTACHED_BACKGROUND","itemBorderWidth":1,"itemBorderRadius":0,"itemEnableShadow":false,"itemShadowBlur":20,"itemShadowDirection":135,"itemShadowSize":10,"imageLoadingMode":"BLUR","expandAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imageQuality":90,"usmToggle":false,"usm_a":0,"usm_r":0,"usm_t":0,"videoSound":false,"videoSpeed":"1","videoLoop":true,"jsonStyleParams":"","gallerySizeType":"px","gallerySizePx":1060,"allowTitle":true,"allowContextMenu":true,"textsHorizontalPadding":-30,"itemBorderColor":{"value":"rgb(5, 5, 5)"},"showVideoPlayButton":true,"galleryLayout":2,"targetItemSize":1060,"selectedLayout":"2|bottom|1|fill|true|0|true","layoutsVersion":2,"selectedLayoutV2":2,"isSlideshowFont":false,"externalInfoHeight":0,"externalInfoWidth":0.5},"container":{"width":1060,"galleryWidth":1092,"galleryHeight":0,"scrollBase":0,"height":null}}
    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook Social Icon
    • Twitter Social Icon

    https://linktr.ee/mdhirst