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May 2025

Just Start: The power of trying to make good stuff
Or: why I don't think people who try hard need to worry about AI
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Just Start: How to be understood
When I first started getting paid work as a writer, I was obsessed with being clever.
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Just Start: The Perils of Phoning It In
"LINE!"*
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Just Start: With a BOX OF SCRAPS
In a CAVE!
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Just Start: 7 Cheat Codes For Life
When I was (much) younger, cheat codes for video games were ubiquitous, but also necessary.
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April 2025

Just Start: Can you actually be "antifragile" in 2025?
Or is the world just changing far too fast?
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Just Start: Avoiding the Plainview Trap
One of the most incredible things about the incredible film There Will Be Blood — which came out in 2007 — is that it so perfectly mirrors the…
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Just Start: On not skipping the warmup
This isn't a post about working out
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Just Start: What can we all agree on?
Or: how I think about changing people's minds
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March 2025

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