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Letters Home
Half the time, it feels like sending signals out into space. But we’ve learned so much of the universe that way, haven’t we?
Gaming
Not a Gamer: Tiny Echo
In Tiny Echo, you play as a one-eyed entity wandering the bowels of a blighted land, delivering mail to spirits.
Gaming
Not A Gamer: missed messages
Indie game developer Angela He’s missed messages sets you up to fail, and that’s a good thing.
Mental Health
Rest
The relentless hustle of startup culture, or the crunch of game development, or whatever synonym other tech-adjacent industries like to use for the endless grind of work, all rest on the metaphor of the worker as a single-minded machine.
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Boundaries
Our office intern asked me a strange question this morning: “Hey Kate, when you don’t like a person, is it obvious?”
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Check your privilege
My dad taught me chess when I was six years old. I learned on one of those huge wooden boards you could pluck from the bottom shelves of National Bookstore’s ever-baffling children’s games section. You know the ones: cream and green squares painted on either side of a hinged case Read more…
Mental Health
Is there anything lonelier than falling ill, alone in a foreign country?
There’s nothing more you’d like than to huddle in a cocoon of blankets and plushies until you can stand to exist for more than three hours at a time again. Instead, you force yourself out of bed and force down desultory spoonfuls of oatmeal to avoid throwing up your meds. Read more…
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New songs, same loop
This series might be the longest-running commitment in my life right now. Ha. That’s probably because it doesn’t feel like a chore or an obligation, just something that comes into being over time. It’s funny: there are only three playlists so far, but they span three years, which is too Read more…