Archive

2023

November

No More Guns on Film Sets
Nerdfest Obsidian, IA Writer, and Drafts
In Praise of Alert Sounds and Electric Cars

October

500 Words Issue 63: Readers Wanted

August

Zoom Can Spy on You
We Buy the Car They Tell Us to Buy
Issue 61 — Rachel Allen Keeps the Love of Writing Alive
Issue 60 — Jv Hilliard Has Created a Masterful World

July

Issue 59 — Elon Musk Messed up My Logo
Issue 58 Rod Faulkner Sees the Genius in Short Sci-Fi Films

June

Issue 57 Brian Freeman Is Building a Creator Community

May

Issue 52 Building Literal Club With Piet Terheyden
Issue 51 Sista Circle - Black Women in Tech, With Lexi B.
Issue 50 Building an Online Community for Your Writing With Matt Gemmell

April

Issue 49 the Visibility Mindset With Bernice Chao
Issue 48 the Sports Justice Movement With Dr. Shaun M. Anderson
Issue 47 Planning Micro-Events With Ever Gonzalez
Issue 46 the FutureX Podcast Starts With Representation

March

Talking Is Easy, Listening Is Hard
Issue 44 Erasing the Archive
Available Everywhere

February

Amusing Ourselves to Death
Why I’m Optimistic
Revisiting What Technology Wants
The Indie Way

January

You’re a Url. Deal With It.
Seeing Clearly

2022

December

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Your Performance Review Episode 10 —Commander Field
Your Performance Review Episode 09—The Maintenance Bot
Your Performance Review Episode 08—Hillary
Your Performance Review Episode 07—The Administrator

November

Your Performance Review Episode 06—Kai
Why Should It Happen in Order?
Your Performance Review Episode 05 - Chuck
Your Performance Review — Episode 04 — D
Your Performance Review — Episode 03 — Pyotr
Old Dictionaries

October

Your Performance Review - Episode 02 - Molly
The Waveform Number 27—The Community Issue
Your Performance Review Premieres
Auditioning for the Job
Writing in a Straight Line
The 25th Hour

September

Finishing up and Starting Again
Things Must End to Make Room for New Things

August

Keyboards

January

Is Any Writing Wasted?
What I’ve Learned Teaching Online
2022 and Beyond: A Manifesto for the New Year

2021

December

Revisiting What Technology Wants

November

The Virtues of Writing in Bed
Reader Guide

September

Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Bonus Episode
Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 9
Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 8
Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 7

August

Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 6
Information Imperialism
Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 5
Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 4
Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 3

July

Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 2
Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Episode 1
Mission of the Lunar Sparrow Trailer

June

Computational Error #10
Computational Error #9
Computational Error #8
Computational Error #7

May

Computational Error #6
Computational Error #5

April

Computational Error #4
Computational Error #3
Computational Error #2
Computational Error #1

March

Now Here’s Something Episode #3
Now Here’s Something - Episode 2

February

Introducing … Now Here’s Something
Writing the Counter Narrative
The Counter Narrative #8 Powering Down

January

The Counter Narrative #7 the Reversal
The Counter Narrative #6 Forget the Details

2020

December

The Counter Narrative #5 the Selfie Ruined Civilization
The Counter Narrative #4 Sorry, Nature, for Our Thoughtlessness
The Counter Narrative #3 Out of Body
The Counter Narrative #2 He Won’t Stop Talking
The Counter Narrative #1

October

Wait, Wut #10 Looking Back From 2050

September

Wait, Wut #9 Incremental

August

Wait, Wut #8 Good Air Sometimes
Wait, Wut #7 Monday Starts on Saturday

July

Wait, Wut #6 Forever School

June

Wait, Wut #5 Power to the Police

May

Wait, Wut #4 the President Needs a Warning Label
Wait, Wut #3 We Need Pizza and We Need It Now
Wait, Wut #2 Zoom Infinitum and People in Boxes
Wait, Wut #1 Buying a Mask and Accepting the Impossibleness

2019

November

The Notebook

October

Anton Chekhov said that if you bring a gun on stage, you have to use it.

August

Thinking mode.

July

More Essayists, Please
Wander in the Forest of Your Mind
Writing Spaces

June

Raymond Chandler

April

Effective Scenes Start in the Middle

March

Working With Pets
The Time Is Now
Written by Hand
Use Writing to Stoke Your Creative Fires
Naps

February

Entanglement and Pattern Recognition
Living a Creative Life

2018

September

Story Arcs in Everything

August

Confession Isn’t What It Used to Be
Building Birdhouses

July

The Value of the Handwritten Brain Dump
Walking the Mind

May

Wabi-Sabi

March

Notes on Taking Notes
The Insomniac’s Machine

January

When I consume an espresso quickly over the kitchen sink I experience a memory story.