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speed us away
speed us away
June 24, 2025
“To do the thing, you have to do the thing.” To be a writer, you must write; to produce things that people read, you must write them down and put them where...

2024
2024
December 31, 2024
(As reposted from my blog.) I'm writing this as I go through the back half of being sick: the part where your head no longer wants to burst like an over-...

the more things change
the more things change
October 2, 2024
The search continues. Every week day (and most weekends, if I’m being honest), I check two or three different job boards, and sometimes two or three other...

summertime
summertime
June 3, 2024
Seasons might be the way to go, with updates: a steady cadence, but one that doesn’t require the effort of justifying its existence every single month:...

class is in session
class is in session
March 25, 2024
This past week, I had the enormous privilege to go to the Game Developer's Conference - known more commonly as GDC - for the first time. Held once a year in...

time flies
time flies
December 31, 2023
I should write a newsletter, I mumble as I move from room to room, curious if I'm fighting the heat or the cold or the wind or the allergies or just ... you...

sirius rising
sirius rising
July 10, 2023
Time can move like the body of an accordion: pressed, compacted, squeezed, until you pull it out, taking a great big breath of air, and you look at it and...

39
39
May 10, 2023
A deliberately late-newsletter, held back until I could announce: I have a new job! I'm working as a senior game designer at Possibility Space, a relatively...

release
release
March 29, 2023
I lost my job this past month. The less said, the better - I'm trying my best to focus on what's happening here and now and what's next, rather than what...

kept you waiting, huh?
kept you waiting, huh?
February 16, 2023
Winter Storm Mara swept in and knocked out service to much of Austin a couple of weeks ago. I was spared much of the difficulty and inconvenience, but I've...

yuletide
yuletide
December 20, 2022
A short letter this month, as I'm on vacation for the rest of the year. I've made good on the desire to travel again by driving to Florida to spend the...

frimare
frimare
November 23, 2022
Fall and winter weather always held some kind of far-off mystique for me, when I was growing up in Florida. November signaled the tail of hurricane season -...

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