There’s plenty to say about 2018. From a political standpoint, sociological standpoint, technological standpoint, cultural standpoint… Lots and lots happened. And most of it was covered by people better suited than me. I’m kind of out of the whole analysis game these days. It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I don’t think I have much in the way of...
Budget Air Travel
Flying a budget airline will wake you up to almost every myth about modern middle class life. (I wrote this post in parts and pieces on my phone during a trip to New York this past weekend, and have since edited it so it actually makes sense instead of simply being shorthand “Peacockese”.) Here I sit on a no frills airliner with no First Class, no Business Class, no passenger status...
Pain, Strength, and Growing Up
Hurting your back in middle age hurts more than your back. But in the end, there's growth in pain. Or something, I dunno. Whatever, just read this ok
The Tetris Effect Effect
Tetris Effect made me cry, in the best way possible.
How To Deal With The Paradoxically Ignorant
You can't win their game, because the rules are dumb. So make your own.
Why Bother? (Pt. 2)
As a reformed shithead, I constantly feel pushed to try to awaken other shitheads to the reality that there’s a better way to be. And as a reformed shithead, I have to constantly remind myself just how useless that was when my head was fully up my own ass. I couldn’t hear anyone while I was way up in there. Or, rather, I could hear them talking, but I never really listened. I was...
Why Bother?
Six months ago, I quit a perfectly decent well-paying job at one of the “Big Four” firms in America to write cyberpunk fiction novels. And there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t ask myself “Why do I even fucking bother?” This morning, I decided to try to figure that out, because honestly, it’s driving me a bit mad. Let me unpack the situation a...
Our Infinite Play Trigger List
It used to be only the smells of Autumn could tell me how to feel... Now, Deep Learning meets deep emotions on the daily and it's weird.
Marlowe Kana Volume 4 Manuscript is Done…
“How do you feel?” I think it’s instinctual for people to ask that question when you tell them you’ve just finished a big project. And I’ve been asked it a dozen or so times since I put the last period on the last sentence of the Marlowe Kana Volume 4 manuscript. And in every single iteration, I’ve answered the same way: “Good. TIRED. Relieved.”...
I’m Not Content With Just Making #Content
Come for the #Content and GIFs, stay for the rambling