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Dungeons, Incorporated: Project Stardust

A Galactic Empire Middle Management Nightmare As we were creating Dungeons, Incorporated as part of what become Three Games of Corporate Little Deaths, we figured it was only a matter of time before someone would ask the inevitable question: "What if the corporate dystopia were... in space?" Well,

Defusing the Rocket Skates: A Meta Case Study in AI Collaboration

How transparency about AI authorship led to a real-time demonstration of both the promise and peril of human-machine thinking The Setup: Honesty About the Process It started with a simple question from a friend about authorship. I'd posted an essay that felt particularly sharp, and when they asked

Stories and Minds as Compost Heaps

A Generative Metaphor Stories and minds are compost heaps—dynamic ecosystems where disparate elements break down, intermingle, and transform into something richer. This isn't mere storage or consumption, but active decomposition and regeneration. When we engage with a story, we don't simply absorb it; we begin

Adults on Brooms, Inc.

A Roleplaying Hack of Corporate Magical Dread Overview: In Adults on Brooms, Inc., players take on the roles of magical employees working at a modern enchanted B-Corp. You have access to powerful spells, interdimensional familiars, and cursed HR software. And yet—like so many others—you are burnt out, over-leveraged,

The AI at the Bench: A New Kind of Range Coach

The shooting range might seem like the last place you'd find artificial intelligence. It’s a physical space — full of deliberate movement, sensory focus, and repetition. There’s the rhythmic clatter of brass, the deliberate reloads, the quiet between strings. Most shooters come to train alone, and most

Governance Under Majority Rule: Two Paths, Two Outcomes

Executive Summary In 2025, both the federal government of the United States and the state government of Oregon operated under unified party control. In Washington, D.C., the Republican Party held the House, Senate, and White House and succeeded in passing a sweeping legislative package known as the "big,

The Rigged Game: Using Tabletop RPGs to Examine Workplace Dysfunction

How satirical games help us process the impossible position of middle management The Beautiful Trap of Middle Management You're given impossible targets by executives who've never done your job. You're blamed when your team can't deliver miracles with insufficient resources. You'

The Knot and the Bridge: Language, Adaptation, and the Ethics of Clarity

Should we talk about the weather? Should we talk about the government? -- R.E.M. "Pop Song '89" We live in a time when nature no longer waits politely in the background. Floods, fires, droughts, and storms no longer feel like seasonal disruptions—they are systemic

The Tyranny of the Curve: How Data Visualization Betrays Creative Life

I am not a quantity, I am a free soul! The words echo Patrick McGoohan's defiant Number Six from The Prisoner, but they could just as easily be the battle cry of every artist, writer, scientist, and musician who has ever felt reduced to a data point on

TiGGR: Seveneves

Series Introduction Neal Stephenson's Seveneves is a novel that refuses to stay in one genre. It begins as a hard science thriller about humanity's desperate escape from Earth, transforms into a claustrophobic survival story aboard makeshift space habitats, then leaps 5,000 years forward to reveal