Sharp observations on modern culture, social behavior, and the strange rules people agree to without noticing. These essays examine everyday absurdities, unspoken norms, and the quiet theater of contemporary life with skepticism, curiosity, and dry humor.
In a near-future United States, the wealth disparity has peaked. The super-rich now face an annual lottery that redistributes their hoards to society. This brief excerpt from the forthcoming novella Settlement offers a haunting perspective from one chosen man as he steps onto the gold circle, exploring morality, power, and the human cost of systemic balance.
An inconspicuous typographical mark of hesitation became a cultural tell. Machines learned our rhythms and readers learned to be suspicious. The result isn’t the death of good writing but a migration away from polish and toward the uneven signals of humanity we instinctively trust.
I worked for a company that proudly employed LGBTQ+ people while quietly forbidding any public support of them. As the social media manager, I was told to delete a Pride post because it might “upset the board.” This is what corporate neutrality looks like from the inside.
I wrote this letter to Big Beer over 10 years ago as a joke. Some inside craft beer geek humor. Today, it reads like something else entirely: a reflective, a memoir-esque piece on identity, and the strange way we drift away from the comfort of assumed permanence without knowing how or when it happened.
Think your pickup truck is just a truck? Think again. If your truck bed has never hauled anything heavier than bags of mulch, you might be an asshole. Let’s explores how trucks, SUVs, and our other “just-in-case” purchases reveal more about ego and self-delusion than actual utility.
Writers everywhere (especially on social media) insist they can identify AI writing immediately. That we recognize it by its clarity, structure, and polish. But haven’t those always been the hallmarks of competent prose. This essay explores the panic over AI and how it says more about our myths around writing than it does about the writing itself.
Over the 20 years from 1998 to 2018, I worked for seven companies across three states. My average tenure over that time? About 3 years. The longest I stayed at a single company was about…
