I’m starting a new story series today about the end of Hollywood. It will roll out on Bluesky. The publishing platform I’m using is @offprint.app 500-words.offprint.app/a/3msvskl…
DAYLOG Aug 10, 2026 at 12:06 PM
After 12 years of riding a single speed bike, getting one with gears is a revelation.
DAYLOG Friday, August 7, 2026 at 4:41:49 PM
"Sitting upright may improve your mood and decision making." Can attest. Life and work is better at my standing desk. McGill University study
In a few weeks, I’ll start posting a story series called HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT. It’s a made-for-the-web series about what brought down Hollywood and what might revive it. 500-words.offprint.app/a/3mqryna…
DAYLOG Friday, July 31, 2026 at 3:36:52 PM
The Guardian rules with headlines like this:
Release schedule: when to wee and when to wait during this summer’s biggest movies
And an opening like this.
The Odyssey
You will almost certainly need to urinate during Christopher Nolan’s epic.
DAYLOG Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 10:46
The petite bourgeois aesthetics of podcasting now has diminished the art form, making it less ambitious than it once was. — Karl Marx
DAYLOG Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 11 03 35
From Daring Fireball, the best writing of the day, as usual.
Apple’s competition is lousy with ads. Downright lousy. Apple seems to be choosing the route of “Don’t like ads? Choose Apple, we shove fewer of them in your face.” That’s way less bracingly clear a marketing message than “Don’t like ads? Choose Apple, we don’t shove any ads in your face.” If your competitors’ stores all smell pervasively of dogshit, don’t aim to have the store that smells the least like shit. Aim to have a store that smells pristine. “Our stores only carry a vague whiff of dogshit” is not insanely great.
DAYLOG Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 14 50 29daylog 22JUL26
Could there be a zeitgeist-y thing happening where people are turning away from their phones and social media, and abandoning AI? My sample size for this study is watching commercials for Carnival Cruise Lines and Snickers.
DAYBOOK Friday, July 3, 2026 at 10:12:47
When you are a screenwriter, you’re a movie camera. You’re trying to write down what that camera sees. In a novel, it’s not like that. A novel is about time. A novel is about memory. A novel is about what goes on inside people.
Do you consider yourself an introvert, but want to do more public speaking? This is the podcast for you: A detailed exploration of working with impostor syndrome.
DAYLOG Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 11:35:33
Though I am writing a fantasy novel set many thousands of years ago, it is shaped by my understanding of parallel universes and GPS; and my characters have modern minds like our minds now. I suppose that’s obvious, but I can’t escape the time we are in.
DAYLOG Friday, June 19, 2026 at 10:41:36
We need a theory of meaning in the absence of intelligence.
DAYLOG Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at 11:56:49
One thing I miss about multitrack podcasting is the search for the perfect alert sound or rattling fan or a beep that signifies something wrong. That was fun. 
DAYLOG June 15, 2026 at 14:37:25
Remember people believe that a novel means that you go into a room and come out six to nine months later and say “Here’s my book.” Nobody wants to know about the struggle, the dead ends, the intense focus stretching your capability. (So I won’t mention it!)
DAYLOG Friday, June 12, 2026 at 11:39:07
Since the new burger place opened up down the street, depending upon prevailing winds, the whole joint smells like a burger.
Tomorrow I will publish absolutely the last newsletter I will write about AI. I am walking away for good. Subscribe today and find out why I am saying “no mas.”
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