Essays
Longer writing, the kind that needed more than one sitting.
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How I Lost the Joy in Creative Work
How turning creativity into "work" made miserable drudgery out of one of my life's greatest joys.
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The Communal Pomodoro Is The Solution To All Focused Work
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.
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This Capitalism Is Terrible Game Design
What Madden 95 on Sega Genesis can teach us about why our entire economic system is crumbling.
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Your Computer Is Worse Than You At Almost Everything
How we got tricked by Machine Envy into abandoning our greatest skills.
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Hypothesis: The Personal Email Newsletter is the Modern Replacement for Letterwriting
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?
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Why No One Makes Films and Why That's A Big Problem
In a world of unprecedented disparities, the widest gulf may be between those who get to make films and those who don't.
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Confessions of a Looter
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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The Story of the Birth of our Daughter, Louisa
Or: What a Level 1 Emergency C-section Is Like
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