I watched a builder spend three weeks on a logo last year. Colours, kerning, the exact shade of blue. Every decision was careful. Every decision was reversible. Because reversible means no one can tell you it was wrong. The logo…
If you know the song, you felt it when you read the title. Rob Zombie screaming five into a microphone. The kind of five that lands in your chest. That is what this week felt like. Five posts. Five days.…
It’s 2007. The stage is in front of me. Akon is on the bill. Ciara is on the bill. I am the opener. I am an MC. I am terrified. I go anyway. That is the whole story. Everything else…
The twentysomething across the table said they didn’t trust AI. We were playing APEX 55: The Queen’s Authority, a card game I designed. I told them they were right not to trust it. Then I told them caution without understanding…
1776 was the moment a group of people said: we are not doing it your way anymore. We are building something on our terms. 1976 was the bicentennial. 200 years later. America stops and measures the distance between the declaration…
Restack, Like and Watch the video. Let’s build up the community and break all records for viewership this year. Community First A message to all, you don’t have to be a cigar smoker to be a part of the community.…
The jargon was the product. Not the knowledge. The knowledge was always simpler than they needed you to believe. I have watched this move before. A new technology arrives. A small group of people learn enough of the vocabulary to…
Every room in the house is being painted. Every room. I have been sleeping in my office since Monday. Chair or makeshift bed, depending on who got there first. The rotation is me, my wife, and the cat. Nobody is…
Manus popped up in my inbox. I don’t hype tools. I test them. So consider this a heads-up, not an endorsement. And given what I just found out, the skepticism meter just moved. Manus landed on my radar this week.…
Hey everyone, Mark here, I want to address something that came up during the last show, because I think there’s some confusion about how the show information is shared, and I want to clear it up. I genuinely appreciate the…
