The vanishing distinction between routine and ritual.
When everything is a bullet.
Playing the bad guy in Crusader Kings.
One day at work long ago, I wrote down everything I could see.
The undefinition of genocide in Gaza.
I'm breaking up with writing takes.
If I'm paying for it, it better feel good.
From independent avocation to in-house work and back again.
Were they wrong??? No.
A literary interlude.
The difference it makes when employers value a worker's whole life, on and off the clock.
Transforming a side hustle into a splashy career relaunch, with an unexpected crash. But a crash is a kind of landing, after all.