Through the last couple of years I’ve researched the subject and done my best to put what I’ve learned into good use. The conclusions I present here are broken into three parts:

After my sophomore summer baseball season my attention shifted to the recruiting process. Having naively self-defined myself as a “star-athlete,” I was terrified of the possibility that I wouldn’t be offered a college scholarship. It bothered me every single day and often kept me awake at night. I had no clear idea about how well I had to perform to earn a scholarship, and didn’t know what level of competition I should be aiming for.

I’ve been this person many times through the years, and I have to admit that the posts I thought might help produce positive change were probably giving these platforms the data they needed to strip a cause I cared about of nuance, and make those I was trying to persuade all the more appalled by it.