Mansal Denton

In the past five years, I have rarely had a sleepless night. I wake up early in the morning, feeling refreshed and eager for a day of work. Until recently, I thought this was the norm. But my partner has shown me otherwise. Even though she has…

Growing up in an affluent southern neighborhood of approximately 90 percent Caucasians was challenging for me as a mixed race child. I remember close friends making jokes about my race and skin tone. My mother made it clear how others would be more…

Humans are flawed creatures. No matter what kind of tool we are given, there is a part of human nature and a subset of our society, which will always become addicted. Somehow we manage to take great tools and abuse them to the point they are no…

Before an entrepreneurship conference, I was meandering through downtown Austin, Texas for a morning cup of coffee. There, I ran into another attendee who knew my name. We briefly chatted, and he was nice. But, his hands were trembling, causing him…

Nootropics is a term for “smart drugs” or cognitive enhancers, which are natural or synthetic compounds that improve brain function. Between the high-performing entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and the cutthroat Wall Street world, nootropics are…

Between the stabbings, beatings, tattoos, guns and drugs, my upper middle-class world was turned upside down. The face tattoos frightened me, despite being commonplace in prison. A person who has not spent time in prison may assume it is a cesspool…