issue 250–12.13.22

Hello! Well, this is it. The final issue. I just want to say thank you. This has been a wild five-year run. You’ve played…

issue 227–3.7.22

Hello! The weekend getaway is my preferred form of entertainment… it’s an immersive escape. Resort to recreation. Hit reset.

Experience the environment.

The script as blueprint. Add vision. At a fundamental level, there are similarities between…

issue 235–6.1.22

Hello! I am incredibly backlogged, please forgive me. I’ll do my best to claw my way out of this mountain of news and get us back up to date in a week or so.

I don’t want to share anything prematurely… but I’ve been in a war room the last two weeks in SF working around the…

issue 234–5.2.22

Hello! A few fleeting fortune cookie thoughts about the industry that touch on taste and validation.

Arbiters, as beacons of quality…

Relationship banked. In defense of intermediary, our world is a bundle of curated markets. Promotion is power…

issue 231–4.11.22

Hello! Group-based ‘storytelling’ is on the rise, it’s still very niche, but no longer relegated to the kids in musty, candle-lit basements spellbound over a tabletop RPG with double dice.

We have the internet, the ultimate game. It’s global, accessible, and becoming…

issue 226–2.28.22

Hello! So this note we have an especially long link digest because I didn’t send an email last Monday. Excluding the winter holidays, it was my first time ever missing a week — since 2017. And I don’t know why. There was no warning, nor ceremony. Maybe it was just a needed vacation from my usual…

issue 244–10.13.22

Hello! I’ve been thinking about lifecycles, beginnings and ends, and the ever-expanding middle ground. The day, from dawn ’til dusk, brings night. Fresh starts and cold turkeys. Ramp ups and downs. Seeds and harvests. Growth. Decay. You get it…

issue 224–2.7.22

Hello! The motive is the mission. The why. It’s the story’s beating heart. It results in a the journey, usually ending in altruism. It applies to the characters in the narrative, and all those involved in making it. Usually it’s the first question I ask when I hear a pitch. Why do you want to tell…

issue 245–10.24.22

Hello! People need to put their tastes, their inputs, on display. Recommendations are a representation of self. Let’s start easy: flex your friends — they win, you win. The old expression says you’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Guess that just makes me a reflection…