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The necessity of imperfection
Comparing 7 popular email clients to replace Gmail
Becoming a sports guy
Detroit: Become Human
2025 Retrospective & 2026 Resolutions
2025: My year in books, movies and music
Fantastically painstaking trawl through the life and (to a lesser extent) work of the great Alan…
Purposeful attention
“If a society improves, the experience of growing up in that society should be less taxing and more…
Redesign 2025
To live deliberately
going minimalist (for 7 days, anyway)
The Shape of the Habit
“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to…
Need a job? Read a comic
And all that jazz
Quarterly review
if you’ve never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it…
The final platform
“…he got a glimpse of Paris during the war, and I can’t blame him if he was captivated by the only…
Frank Conroy
New music discovery and me
Retrospective, 2024 // Resolutions, 2025
2024: My year in music, books and movies
Liar
It was 20 years ago today
40 years of gaming
Saga of the Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)
Tamer
Punk’d
2023 retrospective / 2024 resolutions
2023: My year in books, film, and music
After the rain
Bookies
To Paradise (Hanya Yanagihara)