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After 40 Years, Why I’m Finally Walking Away from the Cleveland Browns

Film & Television Criticism

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We Live In Time’s Silent Grief of Being Forgotten
We Live In Time’s Silent Grief of Being Forgotten
The Curtain Falls Twice: Nesting Performance in The Last Showgirl
The Curtain Falls Twice: Nesting Performance in The Last Showgirl
Remembrance As Resistance: I’m Still Here
Remembrance As Resistance: I’m Still Here
Plan 75’s Choices: Where Life Happens For You, Not To You
Plan 75’s Choices: Where Life Happens For You, Not To You
Grasp The Nettle! The Wondrous Balderdash of Baron Munchausen
Grasp The Nettle! The Wondrous Balderdash of Baron Munchausen
We Argue About It Still: The Virgin Suicides’ Still Point Of The Turning World
We Argue About It Still: The Virgin Suicides’ Still Point Of The Turning World
I Want 'Em Conscious And Talkative: The Long Good Friday
I Want 'Em Conscious And Talkative: The Long Good Friday
The Rain’s Misery & Majesty: The Fallen Priest of Godland
The Rain’s Misery & Majesty: The Fallen Priest of Godland
A Strangled Truth: Fear & Desire in Hitchcock’s Rope
A Strangled Truth: Fear & Desire in Hitchcock’s Rope
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: It Is The Cause, Not The Death, That Makes The Martyr
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: It Is The Cause, Not The Death, That Makes The Martyr
The Missing Pieces of Lynch's Pink Room
The Missing Pieces of Lynch's Pink Room
Withnail & Us
Withnail & Us
High Fidelity
High Fidelity
The Up Series
The Up Series
The Opening Of Once Upon A Time In The West
The Opening Of Once Upon A Time In The West
Nobody Has A Future: Mike Leigh’s Naked
Nobody Has A Future: Mike Leigh’s Naked
For God's Sake Come Back: The Legacy Of Zulu Dawn
For God's Sake Come Back: The Legacy Of Zulu Dawn
More War Than Peace
More War Than Peace
The Greatest Movie Never Made
The Greatest Movie Never Made
My Heart’s Memory Turns To You: Derek Jarman’s Blue
My Heart’s Memory Turns To You: Derek Jarman’s Blue
You Only Pretend To Care: Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home
You Only Pretend To Care: Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home
Managing Alone: The Salvation Of Kes
Managing Alone: The Salvation Of Kes
The Conscious Cruelty of I, Daniel Blake
The Conscious Cruelty of I, Daniel Blake
In A Musical Nothing Dreadful Ever Happens
In A Musical Nothing Dreadful Ever Happens
The Present Is Well Out Of Hand
The Present Is Well Out Of Hand
Seeing and Saw
Seeing and Saw
The New Year's Day Twilight Zone Marathon
The New Year's Day Twilight Zone Marathon
When You Know You’ve Made All The Right Choices
When You Know You’ve Made All The Right Choices
Zbigniew Rybczyński's Orchestra
Zbigniew Rybczyński's Orchestra
Ample Make This Bed: Consequentialism and Sophie’s Choice
Ample Make This Bed: Consequentialism and Sophie’s Choice

Experiments & Generative Laboratory

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Who Do We Become When We Talk to the Machine?
Who Do We Become When We Talk to the Machine?
Lanterns, Not Suns: How Opera Can Thrive in the Age of Generative AI
Lanterns, Not Suns: How Opera Can Thrive in the Age of Generative AI
When the Book Talks Back: How AI Might Turn Novels into Living Conversations
When the Book Talks Back: How AI Might Turn Novels into Living Conversations
The Left Peg: A Quiet Horror of Vengeance
The Left Peg: A Quiet Horror of Vengeance
Reviving the Miscellany: Anthology/Matt as a Twenty-First-Century Memex
Reviving the Miscellany: Anthology/Matt as a Twenty-First-Century Memex
Slash-Brand Architecture: A Formal Analysis of the /Matt Constellation
Slash-Brand Architecture: A Formal Analysis of the /Matt Constellation
Between Lightning and Ledger: The Lexical Dialectic Powering Matt Shadbolt’s Digital Persona
Between Lightning and Ledger: The Lexical Dialectic Powering Matt Shadbolt’s Digital Persona
Multiple-Self Signalling: An Academic Analysis of Matthew Shadbolt’s 1998 – 2025 Citation Ecology
Multiple-Self Signalling: An Academic Analysis of Matthew Shadbolt’s 1998 – 2025 Citation Ecology
The Red-Wired Future of Wrath of the Machine: How Bungie’s SIVA Plague Foreshadowed 2025’s Rise of Programmable Self-Assembly
The Red-Wired Future of Wrath of the Machine: How Bungie’s SIVA Plague Foreshadowed 2025’s Rise of Programmable Self-Assembly
Unknown Pleasures, Silver Screens: How Joy Division’s Sparse Filmography Became a Masterclass in Sonic Story Architecture
Unknown Pleasures, Silver Screens: How Joy Division’s Sparse Filmography Became a Masterclass in Sonic Story Architecture
Dust, Drought & Destiny: How a Three-Year Climate Shock Set the Stage for the Anglo-Zulu War
Dust, Drought & Destiny: How a Three-Year Climate Shock Set the Stage for the Anglo-Zulu War
Charting the Enigmatic Nine: How Destiny 2’s Next Expansion Rewrites an Egyptian Creation Myth
Charting the Enigmatic Nine: How Destiny 2’s Next Expansion Rewrites an Egyptian Creation Myth
It’s Complicated
It’s Complicated
The Fragility of Human Dependence: Speculating Beyond ‘Time Enough at Last’
The Fragility of Human Dependence: Speculating Beyond ‘Time Enough at Last’
Wannabes and Androids: Decoding Radiohead’s Elegy for the Spice Girls
Wannabes and Androids: Decoding Radiohead’s Elegy for the Spice Girls
The Soap Multiverse: EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, and Brookside as a Shared Universe
The Soap Multiverse: EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, and Brookside as a Shared Universe
A Galaxy Without Hope: What If Luke Skywalker Fell at Yavin?
A Galaxy Without Hope: What If Luke Skywalker Fell at Yavin?
The Pirates Of Hart Island
The Pirates Of Hart Island
Osteoneurosis
Osteoneurosis
The Death Of Mowgli
The Death Of Mowgli
The Quietening
The Quietening
The Reproducible Dream
The Reproducible Dream
They Only Play Minor Chords In Hell
They Only Play Minor Chords In Hell
Rats!
Rats!
The Falling Terror
The Falling Terror
Enjoy The Silence. Do The Work.
Enjoy The Silence. Do The Work.
The Last Breath
The Last Breath
Oak Teeth
Oak Teeth
The Canal Turn
The Canal Turn
The Outlier
The Outlier

Product Management

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So Let’s Do This: How Great Product Managers Move The Room
So Let’s Do This: How Great Product Managers Move The Room
Dealing with The Confident Cynic: Turning Skepticism into Velocity
Dealing with The Confident Cynic: Turning Skepticism into Velocity
The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower
The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower
Death to the MVPs: The Problem with Shipping Skeletons
Death to the MVPs: The Problem with Shipping Skeletons
The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity
The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity
How To Be A Great Product Manager
How To Be A Great Product Manager
When Your Best Decisions Are The Ones Others Make For You
When Your Best Decisions Are The Ones Others Make For You
The Freedom Of The Worst Day Of Your Life
The Freedom Of The Worst Day Of Your Life
When Work Stops Being The Work
When Work Stops Being The Work

Academic Papers

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The Role of Religion in Greek and Roman cities
The Role of Religion in Greek and Roman cities
The Integration of Economic Activities in the City of Delos
The Integration of Economic Activities in the City of Delos
Singular or Plural: The Greekness Forged in Faith
Singular or Plural: The Greekness Forged in Faith
The Price of Immortality: Rhetoric and Reality in Pericles’ Funeral Oration
The Price of Immortality: Rhetoric and Reality in Pericles’ Funeral Oration
The Violence of Hope
The Violence of Hope
Positive Obsession
Positive Obsession
An Open Letter To Grieftech Investors
An Open Letter To Grieftech Investors
Auspicious Advertising: The Russian Thirst For Reincarnation
Auspicious Advertising: The Russian Thirst For Reincarnation
What Is Culture?
What Is Culture?
Embracing The Soil Which Grows The Best Version of Me
Embracing The Soil Which Grows The Best Version of Me
Hubris & Parable At Isandlwana
Hubris & Parable At Isandlwana
Enough with the Remakes & Reboots
Enough with the Remakes & Reboots
Serendipitous Discovery
Serendipitous Discovery
Participatory Futures
Participatory Futures
Positive Systemic Data Day Obsession
Positive Systemic Data Day Obsession
The Bubonic Plague In Fourteenth Century East Asia
The Bubonic Plague In Fourteenth Century East Asia
When Physical Distance Gives Us Moral Distance
When Physical Distance Gives Us Moral Distance
The Violent Efficacy Of The Whip
The Violent Efficacy Of The Whip
Servile Labor & Institutions Of Debt
Servile Labor & Institutions Of Debt
Undoing Global Convergence: Brexit & The Weaponized Past
Undoing Global Convergence: Brexit & The Weaponized Past
What Will Brexiteers Yearn For Now They Have Won?
What Will Brexiteers Yearn For Now They Have Won?
How Misinformation Still Spreads Through Non-Engagement
How Misinformation Still Spreads Through Non-Engagement
When The Losers Fight Back: Inequality In Todd Phillips’ Joker
When The Losers Fight Back: Inequality In Todd Phillips’ Joker
Restoration, Rehabilitation & Remembrance In Russia’s Ongoing Patriotic War
Restoration, Rehabilitation & Remembrance In Russia’s Ongoing Patriotic War
Drawing The Divine Closer: Shinto & Animism
Drawing The Divine Closer: Shinto & Animism
The Elemental Aspects Of Fandom & Religion
The Elemental Aspects Of Fandom & Religion
Buddhism’s Durable Refuge
Buddhism’s Durable Refuge
The Unifying Vedic Seeds of Suffering
The Unifying Vedic Seeds of Suffering
The Bridging Paths of Faith
The Bridging Paths of Faith
Oral Histories & Oracle Bones
Oral Histories & Oracle Bones

Semi-Truths & Stories

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After 40 Years, Why I’m Finally Walking Away from the Cleveland Browns
After 40 Years, Why I’m Finally Walking Away from the Cleveland Browns
The Thing Richard Told Me
The Thing Richard Told Me
The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower
The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower
The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity
The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity
Too Quick For His Own Good: Temper And Tension Between Horace Smith-Dorrien And The British Army
Too Quick For His Own Good: Temper And Tension Between Horace Smith-Dorrien And The British Army
How To Be A Great Product Manager
How To Be A Great Product Manager
A Life In Art
A Life In Art
What Have I Done
What Have I Done
The Boy With The Dip
The Boy With The Dip
I Remember
I Remember
Those In Coach Were The First To Go
Those In Coach Were The First To Go
A Journey From There To Here
A Journey From There To Here
When You Fell Asleep Forever
When You Fell Asleep Forever
The Ten Year Cycle
The Ten Year Cycle
On Surviving: Why I’m Still Here
On Surviving: Why I’m Still Here
There Are Stories About What Happened… What Star Wars Means To Me
There Are Stories About What Happened… What Star Wars Means To Me
When Your Best Decisions Are The Ones Others Make For You
When Your Best Decisions Are The Ones Others Make For You
The Freedom Of The Worst Day Of Your Life
The Freedom Of The Worst Day Of Your Life
Pierced Through The Heart But Never Killed
Pierced Through The Heart But Never Killed
I Can’t Take Geek Culture Anymore
I Can’t Take Geek Culture Anymore
When Work Stops Being The Work
When Work Stops Being The Work
Twenty Things In Twenty Years
Twenty Things In Twenty Years
Beware The Owls’ Herald
Beware The Owls’ Herald
How To Never Look Back
How To Never Look Back
The Archive Whisperer: Part One
The Archive Whisperer: Part One
The Archive Whisperer: Part Two
The Archive Whisperer: Part Two
Eyes Up
Eyes Up
Fumbling From Within
Fumbling From Within

Latest Papers & Articles

Featured
So Let’s Do This: How Great Product Managers Move The Room
So Let’s Do This: How Great Product Managers Move The Room
After 40 Years, Why I’m Finally Walking Away from the Cleveland Browns
After 40 Years, Why I’m Finally Walking Away from the Cleveland Browns
Dealing with The Confident Cynic: Turning Skepticism into Velocity
Dealing with The Confident Cynic: Turning Skepticism into Velocity
The Thing Richard Told Me
The Thing Richard Told Me
The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower
The Campsite Rule: A Product Manager’s Quiet Superpower
Death to the MVPs: The Problem with Shipping Skeletons
Death to the MVPs: The Problem with Shipping Skeletons
The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity
The Fog Is the Feature: Finding Opportunity in Cultures of Ambiguity
We Live In Time’s Silent Grief of Being Forgotten
We Live In Time’s Silent Grief of Being Forgotten
The Curtain Falls Twice: Nesting Performance in The Last Showgirl
The Curtain Falls Twice: Nesting Performance in The Last Showgirl
Too Quick For His Own Good: Temper And Tension Between Horace Smith-Dorrien And The British Army
Too Quick For His Own Good: Temper And Tension Between Horace Smith-Dorrien And The British Army
Remembrance As Resistance: I’m Still Here
Remembrance As Resistance: I’m Still Here
How To Be A Great Product Manager
How To Be A Great Product Manager
The Role of Religion in Greek and Roman cities
The Role of Religion in Greek and Roman cities
The Integration of Economic Activities in the City of Delos
The Integration of Economic Activities in the City of Delos
Singular or Plural: The Greekness Forged in Faith
Singular or Plural: The Greekness Forged in Faith
The Price of Immortality: Rhetoric and Reality in Pericles’ Funeral Oration
The Price of Immortality: Rhetoric and Reality in Pericles’ Funeral Oration
The Violence of Hope
The Violence of Hope
A Life In Art
A Life In Art
What Have I Done
What Have I Done
The Boy With The Dip
The Boy With The Dip

 
 

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