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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This was a conversation I’ve had with a few fellow writers not so long ago and then they pointed me to this incredibly well written article. I agree with a few of the points and I won’t get into any…

Today I spent roughly eight hours trying to unfuck someone’s life after they got scammed by “Tiffany” Who is definitely a woman (probably not lol) who was apparently so deeply in love with the victim that she desperately needed $98,725…

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind writing these emails. Not because the ideas are bad. I still believe everything I’m telling you. But because I’ve written about resistance seventeen times. I’ve explained the importance of daily practice…

The world feels like it’s on fire most days, doesn’t it? News cycles designed to spike your cortisol. Social media feeding you rage for engagement. Everyone’s angry about something, and that anger is contagious as hell. But here’s what I…

There’s been a fun post floating about the interwebs over the last few days. Want to know how many people got arrested for posting shit online in 2023? United Kingdom: 12,183 (Oi! Wrong meme, mate…) Belarus: 6,205 (Dictators gonna dictate)…

Everyone’s losing their goddamn minds about the Rapture happening on September 23rd or 24th. And by everyone I mean a metric shit ton of TikTok prophets who’ve apparently received direct downloads from Jesus himself about when the sky hoovering begins.…

Your thing bombed. That project you poured your soul into? Crickets. That post you thought was brilliant? Tumbleweeds. That creative risk you finally worked up the courage to take? It blew up in your face and now you don’t want…

Remember In Time? That mental Justin Timberlake movie where everyone stops aging at 25 and time becomes currency? People literally die when their clock runs out. The rich hoard centuries while the poor scramble for minutes. That’s essentially the plot…

(This ended up being another one of those thick boi emails but I’m not gonna apologise for it) I know what I’m about to say next sounds manipulative as hell, but stick with me because understanding this shit is the…

A couple of times a week I get asked about how to get good as an hired pen. Now like most writing advice. This is not gospel but I’m just gonna let it fly. I know what I’m going to…

But you’re here anyways… This will be a shorter email and I’m just gonna be giving one of my favourite artist of late, a little lovin’ on his work… You think you know what it means to have your retinas…

You’re still reading my words. We all know attention spans have been chopped up and fed to those robot overlords like some sort of sacrifice. Yet you’re still here reading my sentences that take longer than seven seconds to process.…

You know that phrase, right? Sure. Absolutely. I’m totally on board with that universe wisdom type shit. …except for the part where the reason is apparently that the universe has the sense of humour of a drunk toddler with a…

or burn it to the ground, both outcomes beat slow death. So you’ve got words stuck in your throat like broken glass. The conversation you’re not having. The one that makes your stomach do that thing. You know the thing……

I said I was going to put together an ever growing document of things I enjoy looking at. From literature, quotes, art and everything in between. A little doc to scroll through instead of getting stuck in the scroll hole…

The internet feels like a dumpster fire that someone keeps pouring gasoline on. Every platform is optimised for outrage. Every algorithm rewards anger. Every comment section turns into a battlefield where nuance goes to die. Your feed is probably 90%…

Look around. You don’t need me to read the headlines to you. Hell, you’ve seen the videos. Violence. Death. Anarchy. All normal now, which is wild. When everything has gone to shit. I sometimes think to myself if books are…

The world’s on fire. Again. Still. Forever, it seems like, and you’re sitting there scrolling through the ninth circle of social media hell wondering if maybe, just maybe, you should delete everything and go live in a cave somewhere. I…