Essays on authoring a life within constraint.

Follow Your Passion Is Bad Advice for Adults

"Follow your passion" is the most quoted piece of career advice of the last fifty years, and it's wrong in a specific, instructive way that's worth understanding — because the failure mode of the advice tells you something important about how authorship actually works. Here&

Nobody Starts From a Blank Page

On agency, authorship, and the role you were handed. Before you could speak, you had already been given a part to play. You didn't audition for it. You didn't read the script in advance and decide the role suited you. You arrived in the middle of