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Every Convenience Is a Control Surface
What a chatbot's refusal taught me about the systems I used to build.
Feb 19
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Your Accessibility Training Is Buried in a Wiki Somewhere
Lessons from a 3-month contract rebuilding how a Fortune 500 company teaches accessibility
Feb 12
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I’m Fine, I’m Fine, I’m Fine
Contract work, elder care, and the strange math of being professionally competent and financially panicked at the same time
Feb 5
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January 2026
The Top 3 Holdover Skills Samurai Have Working in Corporate America
What a Warrior Caste Can Teach Us About Meetings That Should’ve Been Emails
Jan 29
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5 Things My Asian Parents Never Said Out Loud But Made Crystal Clear
I’m 49 years old, and my mother still asks if I’ve eaten lunch yet, like I’m going to forget and accidentally starve myself to death on a Tuesday…
Jan 22
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Why I'm Killing My Substack Paid Tier After My "Best Year Ever"
A couple weeks ago I posted about having my “best year ever” on Substack—whatever the fuck that means.
Jan 15
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American Retail Theater
“I WANT COTTON, NOT WHATEVER THIS STRETCHY THING IS.”
Jan 9
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I Had My Best Year Ever on Substack. I Don’t Think It Counts.
Or: how I accidentally grew a newsletter while everything else was on fire. Part 1
Jan 1
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December 2025
The Theater That Stopped Ringing
How I fixed my ex-boyfriend’s movie theater and accidentally built a case study
Dec 28, 2025
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I’m Gen X. I’ve been writing on the web since 1999. Let me tell you what changed.
Here's a quick trip down memory lane about how online writing has changed since I started doing this in 1999, approximately 3.5 billion years ago.
Dec 26, 2025
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JanuceTutu and the Great Xfinity Pilgrimage
JanuceTutu sounds like a username for a former ballerina Muppet, not an 89-year-old Chinese immigrant.
Dec 18, 2025
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When the AI Sounds Confident and I’m Running on Three Hours of Sleep
Or: Why I Still Have to Fix Its Bullshit at 11 PM
Dec 11, 2025
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