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What’s in a name? Choosing a name for a child is exciting, but fraught. People seem to find it hard to shake their own connotations of a name. Maybe someone bullied them, and they hate that bully’s name forever. Or maybe their parents gave their dog that name,

What makes a game fun? Is it the people you play with? The surprises afforded by chance? Or devising a strategy so sneakily brilliant no one else saw it coming? Games that rely on a dice roll can certainly be cruisier to play; you can just sit back and merely

Finding the line What makes something entertaining? I think about this a lot, in the pursuit of getting people to read my work within this cascading kaleidoscope of neverending distraction we call the internet. Humour’s important to me, but I’ve learned that this doesn’t necessarily have to

Home again home again The familiarity and comfort of home is important to me. I do like going outside (from time to time), but I love being inside, especially when it’s diabolical outside. When I say I like rainy weather, it’s not because I literally want to be

Turning a number First up, apologies to those sports fans who may feel miffed that the subject line promised a post about sports. While I am a person who likes and plays sports, this is not that kind of newsletter/blog. (But if you’d like to see me pull

Minimalism: So hard in reality I like to think of myself as a minimalist, but the reality is that I still have too much stuff: too many clothes, too many books, too many retro games for consoles which no longer quite work. I’ve always sourced as many clothes as