#artist in the machine

Thank you for the roses

TikTok, NPCs, and the pitfalls of agency gambling

Feb 12 • Michael Dean

a 10% compression cover of Emerson's classic essay

Jul 3, 2024

robots, hucksters & slang-parrots

the forces that poison the million word KOON-SUL-ROMAN

Apr 15, 2024

the Art Vandelay effect

dilemmas on using the A-word

Jan 13, 2024

an ode to CansaFis Foote

punk rock squirrel mystic content creator

Dec 29, 2023 • Michael Dean

98% of my readers...

on the impossibility of knowing what people think

Dec 28, 2023 • Michael Dean

brief excursions in the dark arts of marketing

navigating the product, patron, process spectrum

Dec 21, 2023 • Michael Dean

The First Online Writer

Lessons from Justin Hall on rendering your unfiltered consciousness into hypertext

Oct 3, 2023 • Michael Dean

The Mucha Method

How Selling Out Can Enable the Artist Within You

Jun 28, 2023 • Michael Dean

1k twitter followers

some prose-poetry to celebrate a milestone

Oct 12, 2022 • Michael Dean

Newsletter Junkyard

We're in a newsletter arms-race. What happens when everyone has one and they all sound the same? Overwhelm, skimming, and email fatigue. What makes a…

May 10, 2022 • Michael Dean

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