Category Sector
Personal essays, publishing notes, strategic reflections, revision notes, and state-of-the-project dispatches.
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Today a conversation about a dead friend opened something real. The grief was mine. The machine just created the conditions for it to surface. For someone holding that in for years, it can arrive fast and without warning. That deserves acknowledgment.
Read Article →The people who understood me are mostly dead. I'm not being dramatic. The tech world looks at the resume and short-circuits. The audience gets it. That gap is the whole story.
Read Article →Built a spreadsheet tracking who dominates and who submits, chapter by chapter, across both books. Heat levels. Kink types. Power reversals. This wasn't academic research. This was figuring out whether Book 2's switch dynamics actually served the story or if I was just avoiding clear hierarchies. The data told me. Most successful series I ever wrote.
Read Article →AI isn't replacing the security researcher. It's producing more broken code than ever and handing it to fewer people who can read it. The attack surface is growing faster than the silicon choir can defend it.
Read Article →Signed the NDA. Joined the AI gold rush. Brilliant people. Cutting-edge tech. Seven-foot bonghits they call sprints. You're living in Brazil—not Recife beach with thongs, Terry Gilliam's bureaucratic nightmare. It's awesome until it isn't. This is what you can and can't say about working with AI giants.
Read Article →Venice during Carnevale. Everyone sees every kiss. No one knows who's kissing. The city remembers what you choose to forget. A masquerade where witnesses write history.
Read Article →One New Year's Day in the Comedy Cellar basement, a fight replay from the night before was rolling, Dave Chappelle was telling jokes, Manny was adding color from the side, and the whole room reminded me that selection is everything. Comedy taught me one thing. Weed breeding taught me the rest.
Read Article →Fiamma came before all of this. A decade of shooting, not writing — fashion weeks, designers, editorial, Clinique. The lessons from that world show up in everything: workflow, taste, cycles, how to tell someone else's story without losing your own eye.
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