The Great American Trucker-English Crisis
The Scene of the Bureaucratic Crime Somewhere along the tangled interstate between Sacramento and Washington, a $40 million pile-up just occurred, not of metal, but of politics. At the wheel:…
Thoughts
The Uncomfortable Gift of Evaluate Your Life Day
(And Why Most People Will Ignore It) Tomorrow is Evaluate Your Life Day. Yes, really. October 19th. Someone, somewhere, decided we needed an official day to stop scrolling, put down…
The Unabomber Was Right (And That’s the Problem)
There’s a 35,000-word essay sitting on the internet that more people should have read before we built the world we’re living in now. The problem is, it was written by…
A Writer’s Kick-Butt Manifesto
Because sometimes the only thing standing between you and a good sentence… is your chair. Let’s be honest, most of us don’t need another productivity hack. We need a nudge,…
The Great Free Speech Switcheroo: A Global Tragicomedy
How the World Fell Out of Love With Principles and Into Bed With Power There’s a phenomenon happening across the globe right now that would be hilarious if it weren’t…
The Retirement Money Panic No One Talks About
(And What You Can Actually Do About It) There’s this moment that happens to almost everyone approaching retirement, and it’s rarely discussed at dinner parties or in those glossy financial…
Why I Use Both Substack and Skool
(And Why You Might Want To As Well) Here’s a confession: I’m platform-promiscuous. Not in the chaotic, scattergun way where you’re posting random thoughts to seventeen different social media accounts…
The Consistency Heresy
Or: How I learned to stop worrying about the algorithm and love the grind Let me tell you something that’ll make the growth hackers reach for their smelling salts: consistency…
The Last Human Voice: A Letter to Generation AI
A prophetic meditation on what we’re losing as we teach machines to speak like us. There’s a child being born right now who will never know what it feels like…
When Bombast Meets Bombs
Trump’s Gaza Gambit and the World’s Collective Wince I’m watching Trump live on YouTube as I write this, and Christ, it’s like watching someone play Jenga with international law. The…