Single-Use Apps Are the One-Night Stands of My Digital Life At this point, my phone is not a streamlined productivity tool. It is a graveyard of good intentions. A resting place for hundreds of apps I have used exactly once. Maybe twice if the stars aligned. Single-use apps are basically the one-night stands of the…
A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Liberty in an Age of Political Decay Lynn Scheid’s Common Sense 2.0: A Modern Call to Reclaim American Liberty is now available in both Kindle and paperback editions on Amazon. Inspired by the spirit of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet, Scheid’s work offers a bold, unapologetic challenge to the direction of…
Fix Earth First: Before We Colonize Other Worlds, Let’s Save This One – Lynn Scheid This Earth Day, Disneynature’s Sea Lions of the Galapagos introduces us to Leo, a wide-eyed sea lion pup growing up in one of the most wondrous and fragile ecosystems on Earth. Narrated by Brendan Fraser and captured in sweeping underwater…
Leave Katy AloneBy Lynn Scheid In 2007, a teenage boy sobbed into a webcam and screamed, “Leave Britney alone!” He was ridiculed then, but over time, people realized he was reacting to something real: the public’s love of building someone up just to tear them down when they misstep. That’s where we are again. This…
There is a strange silence at the heart of this war. It is not the quiet of ceasefire. Nor the stillness of peace. It is the silence of stalemate — one that hums with drone strikes, artillery barrages, and the sound of closed diplomatic doors. This week, the Russo-Ukrainian war entered yet another phase of…
April 17, 2025 When John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939, the reaction was swift and controversial. While some celebrated its unflinching portrayal of hardship during the Great Depression, others bitterly condemned the novel, accusing Steinbeck of distorting reality and smearing America’s reputation. Book burnings and bannings were common as many refused to…
To: Legislative Counsel / Policy Development TeamsFrom: Lynn ScheidRe: Legal Structure and Regulatory Framework for a Federal Social Impact Limited Liability CompanyDate: April 12, 2025 Executive Summary This memorandum outlines the proposed statutory and regulatory structure for a new federal business entity: the Federal Social Impact Limited Liability Company (FSI-LLC). The FSI-LLC is a mission-aligned,…
Forty years ago, I opened my first business. Since then, I’ve launched and operated more than a hundred others—from a dance studio and a café to property management, production services, office cleaning, and media ventures. Each one was built to be profitable. But they also shared a deeper belief: that business can—and should—do good. Back…
As a 62-year-old gamer affectionately known as “Poth-man” on PlayStation 4’s Fortnite, my gaming journey began decades ago with a game many younger players might consider primitive: Pong. It was 1972 when Atari launched this simple yet revolutionary game—two paddles and a square ball bouncing across a screen. At the time, this seemed incredibly advanced….
The failure of Disney’s Snow White didn’t come from nowhere. It came from a culture that’s forgotten what professionalism looks like. “With great power comes great responsibility.”— Voltaire The Implosion We All Saw Coming If you’ve been in this business for any amount of time, you know what it feels like to watch a film go…
