Reading/Watching: July 2026

Ahhh, another month come and gone, time really feels like it’s flying by lately.

Things are pretty good for me, in all honesty. My job just moved to some new offices, which are very nice. I have my own little cubicle now, which feels like a joke but it is a step up from the open plan layout we were in before. I’m even next to the front windows, so I can see everyone coming and going from the building.

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Reading/Watching: May 2026

Uff da, it’s been a while. I meant to write some more posts in between this and the last check-in, but work has been so busy lately.

I’m trying to wrap up this project that I’ve been pecking away at for over two years now, and there’s just so many little things that still need to be fixed up. Most of the time it’s fine, but whenever there’s some big meeting or deadline I tend to get stressed about it. Thinking too much about work outside of work… like I’m doing right now! Let’s get into it.

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Reading/Watching: April 2026

Alright, time for another check in on what I’ve been engaging with lately.

I do so hate the “consumption” metaphor for reading books, watching movies, playing games, etc. I understand the utility of it, but it does flatten things and makes the process feel more… flat. You consume to fill a hunger for something. There is only one way to interact with any piece of art or media and it is to take it and wring everything out of it. It’s also so… definitive, like are people really getting absolutely everything out of all the media they “consume”?

Engaging with art is such an specific and individual thing, it just feels off to me to analogize it that way. You can rewatch a movie or replay a game and get something completely different out of it, but you cannot “reconsume”.

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