All my published work:
writing craft_
From Twitter:
Perfect Practice Makes Perfect πβ Writing lessons from my baseball coach
DEVO & Deconstructing Covers π β On making the weirdest cover ever
Catch the fish or chase the whale? π β Feed yourself on epic hunts (re: writing)
Burn Down the Stage β How American Idol influenced social media
Mark Manson π β The subtle art of cursing
DFW: Consider the Lobster π β Opening an essay with stacked lists
Non-fiction writers should binge fiction β Read for style, not ideas
Brian Doyle π β Alternate between simple and complex sentences
David Sedaris π β 7 specific types of humor
Seinfeld π β Layered story arcs
Vonnegut, Vonnegut, Vonnegut! π β A visual deep dive on repetition
Frank Lloyd Wright: Beyond Architecture π β Writing lessons from an architect
Hunter S. Thompson π β Reconstructing his famous list sentence from FLLV
Untangling the Myth of Kerouac π β A lesson on the distortions of fame
internet culture_
emerging technology_
personal essays_
by year_
2023
Lucy in the Sky of Large Language Models β Infinite music breeds Beatle-heads
Prepping for the Editor G*ds β 3 things to do for the weird future of AI writing
The First Online Writer β Lessons from Justin Hall on oversharing
logloglog #6 β A 17 unit-tour, Zillow in VR, the future of the Internet
logloglog #5 β The first online writer / 6 lessons from 21 months of logging
logloglog #4 β Margin Muse, One Thing per day, Baby Logs
logloglog #3 β Waterfalls, Synesthesia, Union Square Travel Agency
logloglog #2 β More TikTok, GPT-Philosophy, Fuzzy Maps, Cyclical History
logloglog #1 β Oppenheimer, TikTok, Baseball
Burn Down the Stage β How American Idol influenced social media
The Mucha Method β Lessons from a Slavic painter on commerce vs. art
Teleportation, $97/month, Coming Soon β The use case of Appleβs Vision Pro
Greenwood Lake β Auto-fiction from a weekend upstate
Dharma Vision β The side effects of recording your memories though Ray Bans
Saturation β How to reinforce themes throughout your essay
Resurrections On-Demand β LSD in Ancient Greece, the roots of Christian ritual
Flash Feedback β How to get feedback like a comedian
Margin Matchmaker β Use AI to automate your research, not your prose
Deconstructed β What goes into making an essay?
The 1,000 Day Molt β Why you should make decisions like an insect
Substack or Bust β Why I moved my personal website onto Substack
2022
Four Stages of Competence π β From conscious to unconscious incompetence
How to can writers practice without writing essays? π β A list of methods to try
Typewriter Essays β 3 short essays written on a 1956 typewriter
Joan Didion White Album π β Deconstructing her first page
How Can Writers Protect Themselves from AI π β POP writing as the antidote
On titling your paragraphs π β The first step in reverse outlining
Outline after you write π β A tweet about reverse outlining
Writing materializes the thought loops in your head π β Just a tweet
Whatβs In a Kerouac Sentence? β Analyzing prose-poetry
Is Mini Golf Better in VR? β What is VRβs killer app?
The Beatles Guide to Writing π β Songwriting lessons applied to writers
Wallacisms: The Art of Memorable Observations β Patterns from DFW
DFW Thread π β Thread on different kinds of observations
Newsletter Junkyard β A plea to be unpredictable in your newsletter
Feedback Gym Lessons π β Lessons from Write of Passage Cohort 8
Jaywalking β Attempted to write everything I saw in a NYC walk
Diehard Audiences β Coldplay vs. Radiohead
Introducing logloglog β Lessons learned from writing down all my thoughts
David Whyte imitation π β A (meh) attempt after reading Consolations
HTS Imitation analysis π β What went into the Hunter S. Thompson impression
Hunter S. Thompson Impression β Thought on New Years resolutions
30 Imitations in 30 Days π β My failed Ship30 experiment
2021
Wilbur Doyle and the Walking Distance Mysteries β Auto-fiction re: my neighbor
Writing as Life Extension β On using AI to recreate you through your prose
The MARS House β NFT gimmicks that claim to be βvirtual real estateβ
Run-Ons & Spotlights β Analyzing epic Virginia Woolf sentences
The Center of Mount Shasta β Understanding the value of writing fiction
Late for the Airport β The beginning of an aborted novel
Building a Second Brain π β A visual overview of Tiago Forteβs course in Miro
Beepleβs Mosaic β What happens if you make something everyday for 13 years?
The Raccoon Coders of Neos β True stories from an underground VR society
The Replication Machine β Comparing NFTs to the KaZaa and Limewire
Hunterβs Breakfast Myth β Analyzing the patterns of HTS
Sleeping on MS-Dos β The next great XR innovations will be in software and UI
The Gaga NFT Dress β NFTs will gain value when the βspatial internetβ scales
Surreal News in January 2021 β Just a joke post to render the weird times
Architect of the Metaverse β Connecting my architectural past to the future
Write for Your Grandkids β Consider the long-game when writing
COVID is a Psychedelic β Some unfinished musings on the Strauss-Howe theory
2020
Las Vegas & the Metaverse β Social XR captures the chaos of Vegas
Crashing Facebook Connect β True story of going into a VR live stream
AI Art π β My early attempts with generative AI
Hierarchies vs. Networks π β Notion vs. Roam
Intro Structures π β On oscillating between confusion and epiphany
Fish vs. Whale π β My one-sheet from Write of Passage cohort 5
Crossfit for Writing Visualized π β A diagram of the workshop format
Atomic Paragraphs π β 100-word arcs of tension
Studio Culture β The similarities between architecture school & Write of Passage
Why I signed up for Write of Passage π β First ever Twitter thread