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Archive Highlight: Dear Dad(s)

[DON'T HIT PLAY YET - I'll tell you when to start the audio]

NOTE: If you're reading Archive Highlights in order, you may be confused right now, as you were expecting to ...

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November Reading; “Joyful Tidings”

After about 6 months of sprinting, I’m finally beginning to catch my breath and reflect on the (questionable) feat of launching two shows for the Philadelphia Fringe which segued immediately ...

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Reading Excerpt - "The Resident," Carmen Maria Machado

One last scare for Halloween?

Heads up - these excerpts from this short story in "Her Body and Other Parties" get a little trippy, and fairly gory towards the end. But if you're looking for ...

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October Archive Highlight - “Pay Up - pt 2;

October Archive Highlight - “Pay Up - pt 2;

Management Bets That You Won’t

This is the second in a series of posts about my experiments in different payment S...

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October Reading; “Scare Tactics”


Just in time for spooky season - a surprising collection of short horror stories that bend what the genre can do and be. My latest work is pitched as “2022-10-07 23:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Finite Time For Infinite Thoughts

Hey everybody,

(hi Dr. Nick!)

Coming at you with my excerpts from "Finite and Infinite Games" by James Carse. Honestly, it's one of those books I image I'll read a few times,...

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September Archive Highlight - “Pay Up - pt 1;

September Archive Highlight - “Pay Up - pt 1;

You’re always Handing Me Money

One of the things I like about returning to a given Festival year after year is the c...

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September Check In


Hey there,

Thank you all for your patience this month - after a paranoid, mask-filled trip, I naturally caught COVID from my first close contact upon coming home, in what ra...

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August Reading Excerpts; Science Snippets from "Give and Take"

EDIT: "Wait a minute, it's not August?!!?" you cry, Calendar clutched in your fists of indignant rage.

Well, yes you are correct - but I'm on the road in another time zone, and WIFI crap...

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Archive Highlight - "Zoom In"

I’m on Vacation this month,* so this will be a quicker edition, but while organizing files on my desktop (yes, delays at JFK were THAT bad), I came across a screenshot that reminded me o...

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August Reading List; "Give and Take TWO"

Yes, this month is something different — I’m coming back to Adam Grant’s “Give and Take” to raid some of the studies from the bibliography (I’ve always loved the idea that learning ...

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July Reading Excerpt: “Bartimaeus”

This month’s excerpt is is an indulgent pick - a little something from one of my childhood favorite series. Lots of little details in this book that inspire me, but I returned to it originally as...

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July Highlight - “Vague Enough to be Interesting”


As anyone who has spent more than seconds on my instagram can tell you, I’m not exactly social-media savvy, and I don’t get top marks for marketing. Part of this is logistical (when ...

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Reading Excerpt: "Give and Take"

This month, we take our first piece of Adam Grant's "Give and Take."

"First?!?!" You say ('you' naturally being a hypothetical person deeply invested in the format of my Patreon posts)....

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June Highlight - “Estranged”

It’s Summertime! A joyous, sticky time in which I wake up exhausted and can’t tell if t...

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Reading Excerpt - Let's Play "GRIS"

P.S. I made a mighty push to finish this game and post this excerpt on May 31st ... but seem to have not actually hit the "post" button. Please enjoy these belated fruits of my labor.
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Archive Highlight - “Keyword Search: Proactive Nostalgia”

May is almost gone, which means we are rapidly approaching the halfway point of the year.

If that makes you feel uneasy (or downright physically unwell), know that you're not alo...

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Reading Excerpt - "The Evolution of Cooperation"

Let's read some Game Theory!

... or like, skim—do you want to skim? I'll help you skim. Take a listen to dip your toe into the heady frustrating world of trying to prove mathematically tha...

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April Highlight - “Not a Documentary”

This Month I’m focusing on my 2014 project [MISSING] again, but this is definitely one of those themes you find running throughout my work, so there are some minor spoilers for Telelibrary ah...

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Reading Excerpt - Let's play The Stanley Parable

"The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice...

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Archive Highlight - “A Word of Thanks”

Celebrating 1 year of Patreon, and 2 years of the Telelibrary

Hey everyone,

Don’t touch that play button yet!

It’s a little something I’d like to give you, ...

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Playtest Alert

UPDATE 5/6/22: Based on messages from interested folks, I've added a few more available times for this piece! Check them out below

Do you love rough drafts, sketches, and ex...

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February Reading Excerpt; The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Hello February Readers,

I'm in the midst of juggling many things, (including a fast-approaching in-person engagement for The Telelibrary at the 2022-02-28 03:53:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Archive Highlight; "A Rose by Any Other Name"

This is Part 2 in a series on the Opening Few Minutes of the Telelibrary. If you haven't read Part 1, or you need a refresher, it's recommended you begin at the beginning. Otherwise, you're wel...

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Reading Excerpt: A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence


This month I read "A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence," by Kartik Hosanagar, and I enjo...

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Archive Highlight; “What’s in a Name?”

Part 1 in a series on the Opening Few Minutes of the Telelibrary


Hey everyone,

I want to thank you all for your patience this...

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Reading Excerpt; "The Art of Gathering"

This month I read Priya Parker's "The Art of Gathering," and used it to look at one of my favorite questions from my AMA View Post

December Highlight: Little Packages Vol. 1; “See You Around”

And just like that, we’ve almost run out of 2021!  This month is a busy one, with the 1st round of playtests for Immodest Proposal done, 2021-12-22 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

December

It's technically-within-the-vague-parameters-of-the-beginning-of-the-month, which must mean it's update time!

Reading list is in your inboxes, jumping into a new book for which I have high h...

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November Reading and exciting news

Hello everyone,

This month I've been reading The Screwtape Letters, both because it is absolutely delicious and for a secondary, far more practical reason to be imminently discussed &nbs...

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