Category: Words

Today I thought it was a good idea to sit around and do nothing. Turns out that “nothing” was actually the worst fucking thing I could’ve done. I’m still getting over whatever it is that I caught, which managed to kill my voice off for a…

I have a particular talent for psychological self torture, which is why I’m rewatching Johnny Depp in Transcendence while AI chatbots are getting better at writing than most humans and everyone’s pretending this is totally fine and normal… [DEEP BREATH] The thing is nothing says “healthy…

This is gonna be a straightforward one. What hobbies do you have or have neglected this year? I need something fresh to dive deep into, so I’d love to see what you’re already obsessed with. Yes. I read and write but hey, it’s not really a…

It’s very rare for me to get annoyed at anything. But customer support is where most businesses go to die. Whether you’re a solo business owner or some corporate behemoth, it’s wild to me that the thought of ignoring your customers and clients is nuts. You…

Hey you. Yes you. Put down that copywriting book. Stop reading another blog post about “the secret to high converting headlines.” Quit circle jerking with other copywriters who all learned from the same three gurus who learned from the same two books written in 1966. *Cough…

If you’re reading this, you’ve already won the lottery. Not the financial one. (I mean that would be cool too, I guess…) Though if you’ve got internet access and time to read emails, you’re doing better than billions of people. There’s always a bigger jackpot out…

There’s an epidemic of people carrying books. I mean it feels like those clowns who carry around designer handbags, but deep down we know they don’t put much in there so they don’t destroy it. But the funny thing is that they strategically placing them in…

We’ve created a generation of chronically miserable shitweasles who feed on outrage and sustain themselves entirely through online conflict. You know the type. You present them with factual information. Complete with sources, references, peer reviewed studies and they immediately refute it without even reading what you’ve…

AWS absolutely fucking imploded today, taking half the internet down with it like some archaic house of cards built by a bunch of vibe coders… Websites crashed. Apps became glorified loading screens. Services that millions of people depend on daily just… vanished. Poof. Gone. Because one…

As much as I want to brainwash myself into being a productivity machine… Optimising my morning routine, tracking my habits, measuring every fucking minute for maximum efficiency, sometimes I just need to have a completely pointless conversation about whether or not hot dogs are sandwiches. Or…

Bonjour… You remember that time when you were a naïve kid thinking that adults seem to have their shit together? The thing is. Nobody knows what they’re doing. Seriously. Nobody. Generally they’re making it up as they go. That person who always has the right answer…

It’s that time of the year where everyone talks about mental health. The thing is. Your mental health isn’t some weird optional maintenance. You need to truly look after it. You wouldn’t ignore a broken bone or a persistent cough, but somehow we’ve normalised walking around…

Purity and perfection are entangled together like lovers who can’t let go. A romantic metaphor right? When you sit down to tackle that blank page. You look at it and you know it’s perfect the way it is right now. It’s kinda like a yard after…

It’s October, which means it’s officially Halloweenis. Which is my made up holiday for when spooky season collides with the brutal reality that you still need to pay rent and sell your creative warez. We’re creatives and artists but we are not about that starving life.…

Remember when The Matrix felt like science fiction? I do. Ahhh. Good times… I mean it all seemed like a cool philosophical speculation instead of getting down and dirty on Tuesday trying to wash off the stink of existentialism. But here we are… 2025, where everything…

I know I’ve harped on about AI and all it’s radical bullshittery that’s being force fed down into our throats over the years. Certain people basing their lives and their whole personality around it, hoping it takes off and changes the world because they’ve invested so…

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” Hunter S. Thompson knew something most writers never figure out… You have about fifteen seconds to grab someone by the throat and refuse to let go. That opening…

Three thirty in the afternoon and I’m sweating into my third cup of coffee at some godforsaken strip mall type of coffee shop just off of the corner of a grunge-y looking building, waiting for a man who said he’d be here at two… The clock…

And you probably don’t even realise it. I’m not going gentle into this Friday night. The thing is. It’s not even your fault. Friends and family are trying to rope us into those endless Tiktok clips. Pulled deep into those scroll holes which do nothing but…

Sometimes you just need to half-ass things. Could people liken it to failure? Sure. I’d probably just say it’s some sort of survival mechanism in the creative and human sense. I know this goes against everything we’ve been taught about excellence and giving 110% and all…

It’s rare for me not write anything. Yesterday was one of those not writing days and well, as much as I preach daily emails for all the various reasons and benefits. A day off won’t kill you. Just don’t take too many days off cause then…

So I caught whatever plague is making the rounds… Could be a cold, could be the flu, could be the opening act of the next global pandemic. Who knows anymore? These days every sniffle feels like it might be Patient Zero material which is always fun…

Ed Gein was a monster. But you might take his side after being given a psychological masterclass in horror. (Or so I’ve been told by a friend who has just binged the whole series in one day…) Granted I’m only 1 episode in, and there was…

It’s exhausting pretending to be someone else. You scroll through your feeds and see these polished, curated versions of human beings. You get sucked into the whole “Maybe I should be more like them.” mindset. This is where you should yell STOP. The things that you’re…

Hey you. Yes you. I can see you sitting there doom scrolling through the news, wondering how much closer we are to the singularity where AI finally decides we’re more trouble than we’re worth. Then we wake up and we’re being chased out into the streets…

Wild times in England right now. Keir Starmer is pushing for Digital ID in the UK and we’re already seeing other countries raise their eyebrows in wanting to join in… If you’re not paying attention to this, you should be, because it’s 1984 on amphetamines. They’re…

Twitter has been insufferable today. The Litterati? (Literature nazis or whatever) were up in arms on Elon’s hellsite… They were screaming from their high horses about how piracy is terrible and you’re an evil monster if you don’t care about piracy, especially if you’re an indie…

The French have this saying… C’est la vie. More aptly put; “That’s life.” Those two words carry the weight of centuries of human experience, wrapped in what I’d call a linguistic shrug, that somehow manages to be both profound and casual at the same time. You’re…

Gary Stevenson wrote a book called The Trading Game about how he went from working class kid to Citibank’s most profitable trader, made millions betting against his own community, then had a complete moral breakdown about the whole system. Half the internet wants to burn him…

Put the phone down and pick up a book (After you’ve read this email obviously) And no. Not an audiobook. Not a Kindle. An actual, physical book with pages you can turn and a spine that’ll look good on your shelf after you’re done being completely…