The Quiet Familiarity
On Working in Tandem With a Machine That Learns You I’ve noticed something happening. Not...
Secrets
Fuck the Hashtags… Get Your Voice Out There
At some point, without really noticing when, we handed the steering wheel to the algorithm....
On Being Hungry (And Why That’s the Point)
I’ve been thinking about Anthony Bourdain and Charles Bukowski lately. Not together, exactly. They never...
Writing Drunk, Editing Sober (Sort Of)
What Bukowski Taught Me About First-Draft Wildness There’s a quote often attributed to Hemingway… “Write...
When Brain Surgery Stops Feeling Like Surgery
I saw something slide past on X the other day that most people will scroll...
The Unglamorous Truth About Consistency
We’ve been absolutely gaslit by technology into believing that because we can ask for something...
The Pub and The Library: Using Twitter and Mastodon Together (Without Losing Your Mind)
Right, so you’ve been on Twitter for years. You know the game. You understand the...
Why I Still Use Twitter Like a Pub
(And Why You’re Doing It Wrong) I’ve been on Twitter for 15 years. Which means...
The Passport Lottery (Or: Why I Refuse to Play)
I was standing in Heathrow Terminal 5 when it properly hit me. Not the mild...
The Gluttony Season
On Christmas, Capitalism, and the Violence of Plenty Every December, we perform a ritual so...
