essays

Kid Lightbulbs self-review, 2024 edition  2024-12-31 Accepting the Spotify “problem”  2024-12-23 The RUINED CASTLE story  2024-12-13 “hope inside my baby’s heart”  2024-11-01 How I broke $1000 in Bandcamp sales over 9 months  2024-08-18 Lightbulbs lore: seabreeze  2024-07-27 Musical déjà vu in STEP INTO THE OCEAN  2024-06-09 Internet DIY: My own music selling mechanism  2024-05-12 Playlists are the currency of digital middlemen  2024-04-29 Some guiding principles for creative independence  2024-04-22 Listening to Earthside’s “Watching the Earth Sink” half asleep on a morning flight  2024-01-12 On platform incentives & supporting indies  2023-12-23 Liberal arts and the jobs of 2030  2023-04-20 Our new enablers  2023-03-28 Where we’re going, there are a million roads  2022-10-14 Location agnosticism  2021-01-21 Creativity & LinkedIn  2021-01-08 Out of nowhere  2021-01-01 Earworms  2020-03-01 So, layoffs are weird  2020-02-17 Clarity check-in  2020-02-03 Thoughts on thoughts on iPads  2020-01-29 A bunch of crap duct-taped together  2020-01-20 Secret weird things I do  2020-01-19 Running a dumb robot vacuum with Shortcuts  2019-06-19 The wonderful future, or my phone is slowly becoming my wallet  2016-08-31 On Prince’s “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”  2016-05-03 Eight months, in an office  2016-03-08 Peak live music  2016-02-03 On Maker Overload  2016-01-15 You Won’t Be Successful, Unless This Medium Post Is  2016-01-08 On “pop writing”  2016-01-05 Earthside reinvigorated prog & reminded me of my roots  2015-12-17 In Defense of Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz  2015-12-06