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The Unexpected Side Effects of Recording Memories With Your Ray-Bans

Mar 18 •

Balancing Themes Across an Essay

Mar 13 •

Resurrections On-Demand

Put LSD Back in the Communion Wine

Mar 10 •

Deconstructed #2 (How to Edit like a Comedian)

Mar 5 •

Margin Matchmaker

Don’t use AI to automate your prose, use it to automate your research.

Mar 1 •

February 2023

Deconstructed #1

Reverse outlines, 93% rewritten, inline footnotes, two-column writing, and editing with your tongue. Lessons from “The 1,000 Day Molt.”

Feb 25 •

The 1,000 Day Molt

How to Make Decisions Like an Insect

Feb 23 •

January 2023

Substack or Bust

A centralized blogging platform has evolved into the 'trifecta for online writers.' What are the consequences of not joining?

Jan 2 •

October 2022

Typewriter Essays

A collection of one-page essays I wrote out on my typewriter.

Oct 31, 2022 •

July 2022

What's in a Kerouac sentence?

Simple sentences are great. But once in a while, a meandering river in the middle of your essay can really ring the soul.

Jul 19, 2022 •

Is Mini Golf Better in VR?

For $16, my wife and I got access to two rubber golf clubs, neon balls, and a sequence of 18 amoebic, turfed-up, basically flat holes along the side of…

Jul 19, 2022 •

May 2022

Wallacisms: The Art of Memorable Observations

"Big Red Son," is an outrageous David Foster Wallace essay about a 1998 adult film conference. By dissecting it, we'll learn some (non-vulgar) tricks to…

May 26, 2022 •

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