How turning creativity into "work" made miserable drudgery out of one of my life's greatest joys.

In-person work can be distracting to the point of impossible. Remote work can be lonely and self-loathing. The Communal Pomodoro solves all of the problems at once.

What Madden 95 on Sega Genesis can teach us about why our entire economic system is crumbling.

How we got tricked by Machine Envy into abandoning our greatest skills.

Letterwriting is completely dead, along with all of its personal (and societal) benefits. Is there a realistic, sustainable way to get some of that back?

In a world of unprecedented disparities, the widest gulf may be between those who get to make films and those who don't.

Written on June 1st, 2020, immediately following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, when the narrative shifted, as it always does, to "rioting and looting."

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