Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
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Where It Ends
Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.
I Like to Move It Move It
Higglety-pigglety narrative chess pieces, and the end of the beginning of the end.
Unpacking the TV show LOST — Season 4: Episodes 12-14
The Shovel Next Time
Liberation from tyranny is also liberation for the tyrants.
Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
Goodbye to 2025
State of the newsletter, an invitation to upgrade, and an end-of-the-year round up of essays.
Stories We Tell
Recognizing victims and villains is not creating victims and villains. A series on living in a culture of repair, against a culture of abuse.
Cult(ure) of Abuse
How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?
LOST 041: Ghost Dad
Abandoned babies and surgical ladies while spooky happens in move-y cabins. Pondering the imponderables on mystery island.
Unpacking the TV show LOST — Season 4: Episodes 10-11
Bookish News
Information about the new book and the state of The Reframe over the remainder of 2025.
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
The Death of Shame
Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.
When You're Right
Sometimes I doodle.