essays

Accepting the Spotify “problem”  December 23, 2024 Lightbulbs lore: seabreeze  December 22, 2024 The RUINED CASTLE story  December 13, 2024 “hope inside my baby’s heart”  November 1, 2024 How I broke $1000 in Bandcamp sales over 9 months  August 18, 2024 Musical déjà vu in STEP INTO THE OCEAN  June 9, 2024 Internet DIY: My own music selling mechanism  May 12, 2024 Playlists are the currency of digital middlemen  April 29, 2024 Some guiding principles for creative independence  April 22, 2024 Listening to Earthside’s “Watching the Earth Sink” half asleep on a morning flight  January 12, 2024 On platform incentives & supporting indies  December 23, 2023 Liberal arts and the jobs of 2030  April 20, 2023 Our new enablers  March 28, 2023 Where we’re going, there are a million roads  October 14, 2022 Location agnosticism  January 21, 2021 Creativity & LinkedIn  January 8, 2021 Out of nowhere  January 1, 2021 Earworms  March 1, 2020 So, layoffs are weird  February 17, 2020 Clarity check-in  February 3, 2020 Thoughts on thoughts on iPads  January 29, 2020 A bunch of crap duct-taped together  January 20, 2020 Secret weird things I do  January 19, 2020 Running a dumb robot vacuum with Shortcuts  June 19, 2019 The wonderful future, or my phone is slowly becoming my wallet  August 31, 2016 On Prince’s “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”  May 3, 2016 Eight months, in an office  March 8, 2016 Peak live music  February 3, 2016 On Maker Overload  January 15, 2016 You Won’t Be Successful, Unless This Medium Post Is  January 8, 2016 On “pop writing”  January 5, 2016 Earthside reinvigorated prog & reminded me of my roots  December 17, 2015 In Defense of Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz  December 6, 2015