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Latest — 12 Jun 2025

My Least Favorite Advice: Just Write More Books

Every time I scroll through author Bluesky, or any social for that matter, I see the same piece of advice served up like it’s the crispy taco deluxe of publishing success: “Just write more books.” Oh, thank you, wise marketing sage. How very novel of you. If only someone

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Going Narrow: A Practical Guide to Buckling Like a Belt

After a brief and underwhelming sabbatical from the Church of Bezos, I’ve returned—head bowed, tail tucked, and ready to once again sell my wares in the temple. You know, the one Jeebus flipped tables over because it had become a marketplace? That one. Except this temple is digital,

Opinions Are Like Colonoscopy Stories: Everybody Has One

In retrospect, turning 45 was a mistake. Ever since that fateful day in March, bad things have been happening to me—things even Cool Daniel or Even Steven Daniel can't seem to reconcile. There was the you have angry old man shoulder just deal with it diagnosis from

Thunder in My Heart (and Other Lies)

Strapped into a go-kart, heart pounding, helmet damp with someone else’s sweat, all I can think is: please, not again. I'm in Group 2, tail end of the lineup, listening to a teenage attendant deliver the safety speech with the enthusiasm of a bro-skibidi-rizz TED talk. He&

Weekly Uplink: Failure to Widen, Socially Exhausted, and The Syncing Feeling of Lost Edits

My content calendar insists today is for a personal update, so here we are, broadcasting another Weekly Uplink straight from the Verastiqui neural stack. Let’s get into it before the system times out. Going W̶i̶d̶e̶ Right Back to Amazon I still don’t know what to

Ethics vs. Exposure: The Dilemma of Publishing with Amazon

How convenience, compromise, and capitalism are breaking the indie dream. Enter the Behemoth I'm pretty sure the phrase "love-hate relationship" was invented in anticipation of how I would feel about Amazon in 2025. I remember–decades ago now–being at the library on base in Misawa,

What Can I Say Except Dou Itashimashite

May 2, 2025 – Austin, TX The sky in Austin today couldn't make up its mind. Half of it looked like a dingy bedsheet, bleached and stretched, and the other a bruised knuckle, blue to almost black. Rain was coming. The kind of rain that makes you reach for

Four Hours at Jacoby's

On friendship, fate, and existential nihilism Every time I drive somewhere in Austin, it feels a little like visiting a childhood home and finding it now serves poke bowls and bespoke dog treats. The city is growing, the roads are getting wider, and what used to be sleepy two-lane drags

Notice of Security Incident

Date of Notification: April 25, 2025 Dear VNet Account Holder, Thank you for choosing Vinestead International’s Virtual Reality Network (“VNet”) as your platform for immersive digital experiences. We are committed to safeguarding your personal information and are writing to inform you of a recent security incident that may have

One if by land...

Perfect protest. No notes. Preserving for posterity. As seen on Reddit.