Follow my journey as a struggling poet, writing for years and facing rejection after rejection. Despite the lack of recognition, I share my words, pouring my heart onto paper and persevering in my passion.
Recent Posts
The AI Slop Panic Is Hiding Something: We Already Let Machines Choose What We Consume
We recoil at AI-generated content while happily consuming whatever an algorithm serves us. This deep dive examines the hypocrisy in our performed disgust, why “human or machine?” is the wrong question, and what a more honest relationship with content actually looks like.
The Boring People Built Everything: Why We Stopped Celebrating Scientists, Poets, and Teachers
Scientists, poets, and teachers were once public heroes. Now they’re invisible. A deep dive into what actually changed — and what to honestly tell a young person.
The Brand Called You: When Who You Are Started Beating What You Do
There was a moment when who you are started mattering more than how good you are. Here’s what changed, what we gained, and the quiet bill now coming due.
The Superstar Machine: How Fame Really Gets Made (It’s Not Luck, and It’s Not a Conspiracy)
Fame isn’t random luck or a shadowy conspiracy — it’s a business model. A deep dive into superstar economics, the algorithm, and the dopamine lottery that keeps us all playing.
Do I Have to Be a Full-Time Writer to Call Myself a Writer?
You don’t need to quit everything to be a writer. A warm, dryly funny journal entry on the day job, the starving artist myth, and why “give up all else” is the worst advice in the arts.
A History of Sex as a Business 10 | Where Do We Go From Here: Laws, Justice, and Human Dignity
Five thousand years of history bring us to the hardest questions: what policies actually protect people, what evidence says about different approaches, and what it would mean to organize our response to commercial sex around the genuine interests of the most vulnerable people involved.