I don’t think people miss pop culture. I think people miss the benefits of automatic synchronization. Friendships have become transportation vehicles for offloading shared interests. Not even connection, exactly. Just verbal diaherea for what you’ve experienced lately. At least, thats what operates on the surface. What happens inside? Something much stranger than that. You finish…
In the last couple of essays, I’ve been circling the same idea from different angles. What maintains us and what happens when we lose track of it. Internal.Relational.Cultural. But there’s a third part to this. A practical question – how can you actually maintain yourself? Personal. The lens from me matters. The cultural lens matters….
Have you ever noticed how often you adjust yourself mid-conversation? It’s a subtle adjustment too. You soften a statement.You explain your reasoning twice.You reframe something you were already clear about. Not because you were wrong. Because you could feel the friction from the other party. And of course, it doesn’t feel like a loss when…
Have you ever felt strangely haunted by versions of yourself that never actually existed? The entrepreneur you almost became.The artist you promised you’d return to.The disciplined version of you that only lived for a few months. Each unfinished identity leaves a small imprint. And over time, those imprints accumulate. It’s because every new interest, persona,…
After “Peak Curation” I’ve been writing in a public forum for over a decade. Sometimes I write purely from my internal head canon; other times, I have reference material to guide me. But every once in a while, I find inspiration in the world around me, and I go to work with that muse, placing…
It’s easy to blame time. It’s easier to say people have a problem with time management. But that turns the idea on its head. You don’t have a time problem. You actually have a curation problem. Most people aren’t building lives of quiet desperation.They’re collecting them. We live in an era that celebrates accumulation.New ideas.New…
So often in life people speak about motivation like it’s an inherent trait. You either have it or you don’t.You’re either disciplined or you’re lazy.You either want it badly enough or you have a skill issue. It’s a comforting story because it gives us someone to blame when things don’t go our way. And the…
Horror movies represent a particularly special blend of storytelling and emotional triggers. Some argue that horror movies are meant to reveal our deepest fears, others suggest they serve as morality tales about what is acceptable in society and the consqeuences of going against the natural order, still others believe that they serve as a mirror…
In preparation for today’s episode, I decided to do a little research about the psychology of film, and in the process, I learned a few things. For instance, did you know that film and psychology have been connected since the late nineteenth century? With research labs studying the mechanics of perception and how our visual…
It’s finally arrived! After a solid couple of weeks worth of posts featuring my good friend Dave Von Bieker, also known by his very clever stage name of Von Bieker, our full-length interview is alive, well and available for all to enjoy. In case you haven’t been following the previews, I have decided to change…