Writing Drunk, Editing Sober (Sort Of)
What Bukowski Taught Me About First-Draft Wildness There’s a quote often attributed to Hemingway… “Write...
Thoughts
When Brain Surgery Stops Feeling Like Surgery
I saw something slide past on X the other day that most people will scroll...
The Geometry of Worth
You know what nobody tells you about low self-esteem? It’s not actually about you. I...
What Have We Learnt This Year? (Spoiler: Probably Nothing)
Another year dissolves into the rearview mirror, and here we are again, pretending we’ve grown...
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 Slow-Motion Avalanche
Living in Late-Stage Capitalism There’s this moment that keeps happening to me, and I suspect...
The Gluttony Season
On Christmas, Capitalism, and the Violence of Plenty Every December, we perform a ritual so...
The Grand Illusion: Why 2026 Won’t Save You
(And What Might) Christmas is coming. The goose is getting fat, as the song goes,...
We’re Not Dying from Overwork, We’re Dying from Overstimulation
(And We’re Too Addicted to Stop) Everyone’s talking about burnout like it’s some noble badge...
The Age of Prosperity
Or: How We Learned to Decorate Around Poverty and Call It Progress We are repeatedly...
