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…

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…

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,…

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 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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…