Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

Scott Harrison, founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water faced a brutal reality. His nonprofit was caught in the same exhausting cycle that torments every charitable organization: the annual donor exodus. Year after year, the vast majority of supporters would vanish, forcing the team to rebuild their entire funding base from scratch. Harrison brought an unusual perspective. Before founding charity: water, he’d mastered persuasion psychology in Manhattan’s club scene. He suspected that traditional nonprofit thinking was missing something fundamental about human nature. The Fundraising Puzzle The fundraising playbook seemed carved in stone. For decades, nonprofits had relied on two…

Zachary Donohue’s faux true crime docuseries The Unknowable was a zippy, trippy little treat that managed to communicate everything it needed to in just 38 minutes, across 10 bite-sized installments. With The Unknowable: Darkland, Donohue remains onboard but hands the reins over to Kyle Cooper, who directs each episode alongside co-writing them with Brandon Sean Pearson and Kevin Swanstrom. This time around, the instalments clock in at 21-23 minutes a pop, with eight in total, making Darkland considerably longer than its predecessor. Although this allows for a wider scope and further experimentation, it also means there’s considerably more fat on…

What if the greatest threat to human freedom does not arrive through force but through convenience? As AI systems grow more predictive, anticipating our thoughts, smoothing our decisions, and relieving us of friction, the small moments of effort and hesitation where deliberation lives, they may begin to shape our behavior in ways so seamless we barely notice. What starts as helpful assistance could quietly evolve into something more powerful, even dystopian: an invisible architecture that reshapes how we think, choose, and act. In the novel Brave New World [1], Aldous Huxley imagined a society controlled not through force, but through…

Watch the Trailer for FACES OF DEATH: “In FACES OF DEATH, the exploration of the original film’s infamous “is it real or not?” conceit continues as a woman (Ferreira) working as a content moderator for a major video platform discovers what appears to be re-enactments of murders from the original film. In an online world where nothing can be trusted, she must determine whether the violence is fiction, or unfolding in real time.” Director: Daniel Goldhaber Written by: Isa Mazzei & Daniel Goldhaber Starring: Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, with Jermaine Fowler and Charli XCX Runtime: 98 min Rating: R To watch…

Just as Barcelona coach Hansi Flick seemed to be navigating through a busy schedule with a nearly full complement of players, he has been hit with some bad news regarding Frenkie de Jong.The Dutch international was forced to withdraw from the team’s latest training session after feeling significant discomfort. The club has now released an injury report to confirm the problem and how much time the midfielder will miss.De Jong facing six-week layoff with muscular tearThe 28-year-old sustained a hamstring injury on Thursday and now faces a significant spell on the sidelines. It is a devastating blow for a player…

Time matters to us because we depend upon it in several essential ways, over which parent and teenager can increasingly conflict. To measure our life experience: how much there is, how long it lasts, how to keep up, scheduling what needs to happen when. About measured time, the adolescent can become more impatient and resistant: “I need this now!” “I’ll do that later!” To evaluate our life experience: how it felt, how relaxed or hurried, easy or hard, pleasurable or painful. About evaluated time, the adolescent can become more critical and dissatisfied: “This is a bad time!” “Stop giving me…

Quiver Distribution and Post Film just announced that production has wrapped on The Last Temptation of Becky. The third film in the franchise sees Lulu Wilson returning as the titular character. This time she’s facing off against Neil Patrick Harris who’s playing a Nazi wannabe. Yes really. The film hits theaters in summer 2026. That’s all we know about the release date so far. Becky is Now a CIA Agent (Because Why Not) The Last Temptation of Becky finds Wilson’s character working as a field agent for the CIA. She’s sent undercover to Poland to infiltrate a family of innkeepers…

Thanks to unexpected cast shakeups, organized boycotts, and lawsuits over mask ownership, the context of any Scream 7 review is crucial.  With blinders on? The seventh entry is a stab-happy yet incompetently underwritten slasher sequel—the worst, in fact. But there’s more to Paramount Pictures’ hopeful legacy cash cow. It’s a cowardly continuation that hides behind cheap nostalgia as a distraction, yet expresses a level of pettiness that’s embarrassing to behold.  There’s a difference between cheeky snark and a spiteful airing of dirty laundry that co-writer and director Kevin Williamson does not compute. Scream 7 doesn’t hide from Spyglass’ reactionary firing…

Anyone who spends untold hours surfing the Web for humorous content will eventually find the work of one Vladimir Shmondenko, a prankster who goes by the name Anatoly. He’s developed a faithful following, and, as far as I can tell, makes a comfortable living entirely from his TikTok and YouTube videos. For those of us fascinated by laughter and the humor used to solicit it, a careful look at his work can be quite instructive. The 4 types of laughter As most of my readers already know, the mutual vulnerability theory—the explanation for laughter that I rely on in this…

March Madness isn’t just for basketball; Netflix is unloading a bunch of new crazy titles for next month including the entire Saw franchise.  It’s a weak month for them as far as originals, but we can celebrate anyway because they’re adding Sleepwalkers to the roster! Below is a list of new March Netflix content we thought our readers might like, including a new Duffer Brothers-produced horror series. Ta-Dum!  March 1: Goosebumps (2015) – Jack Black stars as author R.L. Stine in this family adventure, where his monstrous creations escape their books and unleash spooky chaos on a small town. Jurassic World…