Corona, the cosmos and these strange digital days — An interesting feature of the present is that we’re all-time travelers now. I can’t believe we’ve spent over two entire years like this. None of us can. I’m hardly the first to point it out, but the “Tiger King” phase of Corona feels as though it was a decade ago…

Briefly, Anyway — I’ve been procrastinating on doing one of these for long enough, so here goes. My name is Ben and I’m a 26-year-old writer living in Philadelphia. I love to write. Some of the authors that have had the greatest impression on me are Tom Robbins, Khaled Hosseini, Sam Esmail, Vince…

An eerie new development in the world of artificial intelligence — Artificial intelligence has been on the rise for years. Within the last few months alone, some of the developments within this area of technology have become difficult to ignore. With the advent of AI image creation services like Dall-E 2, Midjourney and Lensa, this burgeoning new field has grown into…

This is a piece in a growing series of mine about dreams and lucid dreaming. In these stories I give first person accountings of some of the dreams that I have each night. Identities and locations can shift around with little to no warning and the narratives don’t follow typical…

How we squandered the promise of a boundless knowledge haven — When the internet first entered homes, there was a wide-eyed optimism that surrounded it. It had the potential to democratize all of human knowledge, after all. For free, we could have each learned anything that there was to know without consequence. In those earliest days, and in our loftiest visions…

Lucid dream 24 — This is a piece in a growing series of mine about dreams and lucid dreaming. In these stories, I give first-person accountings of some of the dreams I’ve had. Identities and locations can shift around with little to no warning and the narratives don’t follow typical plot structures. …

Having empathy toward the pioneers of the digital age — Millennials and members of Gen Z can often get a bad rap. If you’ve ever spent an hour on TikTok, it isn’t always difficult to see why. But we deserve our credit, too. It’s hard to deny that there’s something unique about the time period in which we’re living. Crumbling…

Vivid dream 21 — This is a piece in a growing series of mine about dreams and lucid dreaming. In these stories, I give first-person accountings of some of the dreams I’ve had. Identities and locations can shift around with little to no warning and the narratives don’t follow typical plot structures. …

Writing happily through times of turmoil — It’s a good time to be writing happily. Not that it was ever a bad time to be happy, of course. But it’s a time now when it seems that not many writers are. …