Issue 44 Erasing the Archive I’ve always been a total nerd about my work setup. I have custom-made rubber stamps for my notebooks and treat pencils like cult objects. Most days I work at a standing desk for hours. And that desk is not really a desk, but a bar…

Book Marketing Log — Entry 01 “Climate change fiction” is a thing, even though many readers might not know it yet. It’s a category! …

The Waveform Issue 31 — Talking is Easy, Listening is Hard Talking is Easy, Listening is Hard But maybe for you, it’s the other way around. Listening is easy, and talking is the hard part. I got a chance to do both on a recent appearance as a guest on the Care More Be Better Podcast…

I was a guest on the Care More Be Better podcast to talk about eco-anxiety and my book Surrender. The host Corinna Bellizzi and I spoke about facing the consequences of our love of tech, evaluating the real value of futurist projects, the problems with “tech bro” companies, and what…

The book by Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death is my next nonfiction read. I haven’t read it for a while, but it seems particularly relevant now that conversations with chatbots have taken over the imaginations of some of our best and brightest. Folks like Ben Thompson and Kevin Roose…

Hello! My new science fiction novel Surrender is available everywhere now, listed by Bookshop.org, Book Depository, and Amazon. Wow. I will do an audiobook also, but not for a few months. I’ve hired a publicist, who is going to be working on pitching to influencers, working the big Amazon machine…

Anyone who creates public work today is in a race for human attention. You may not have asked to be in the race, or even know that you’re running in it; but you are. Technology has become the nervous system for everything. When you’re building attention for what you do…

Hello! Welcome to Issue #30 of the Waveform. Professional Development for Podcast Hosts Has someone at your company asked you to host the company podcast? Or do you wish they’d hurry up and ask? One of the best parts of working at Red Cup Agency is creating new podcasts. …

Trigger warning: Some surgery description at the top; then more philosophical as it goes on. At this time last week, I had 20/20 vision out of my left eye, while the right eye had to work hard to see the biggest letters on the eye chart. My walking gait had…