Essays
- Eating the Elephant
The case for the audience is a good one, and I made it to myself for years.
- The Second Job Nobody Asked You to Get
There's an honest case for the couch. You worked all day, your brain used up whatever it had, and now it wants nothing: no decisions, no output, only the low hum of somebody else's thoughts scrolling...
- Fifty, Thirty, Twenty
A ledger for work made with machines: the prompt, the process, the truth. Fifty, thirty, twenty.
- The Odyssey, and the Men Who Cannot Come Home
There is a kind of film that arrives already convinced of its own importance, and asks only that you agree. Christopher Nolan has made one. The Odyssey opened this July, three hours of it, and the...