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On The Unsettling of American Workers

Sep 26, 2026

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4 min read

On The Unsettling of American Workers

Flee! Flee into the woods! Quit your job, plant a garden, and live off the land. Alternatively, consider Wendell Berry's writings and what our modern disconnect from the land means for us.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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More Is More, and More Is the Problem

Sep 5, 2026

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4 min read

More Is More, and More Is the Problem

Why being an online creator has never been more frustrating. Unless you're willing to churn and burn.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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You Are a Badass at Identifying Vaporware

Aug 23, 2026

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9 min read

You Are a Badass at Identifying Vaporware

On self-help that makes me question the “non” in nonfiction and today’s technocapitalist promise of easy money

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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Bookworm Seeks Other Bookworms for Bookworm Things

Aug 4, 2026

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4 min read

Bookworm Seeks Other Bookworms for Bookworm Things

I know we're mostly a pack of introverts, but how might more bookish beauties better support each other? Also, a heads-up about a tech blunder.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

Critical Reading and Theory

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The Literacy Crisis Makes Me Literally Cry, Sis

Jul 20, 2026

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5 min read

The Literacy Crisis Makes Me Literally Cry, Sis

Americans are reading less than ever. Let's start a countercultural movement.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

Critical Reading and Theory

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Dungeon Delving into Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl

Jul 5, 2026

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7 min read

Dungeon Delving into Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl

Critical reading, literary analysis, and a dystopian televised video game starring a man in his underwear, a diva cat companion, and an AI with a foot fetish.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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Create More or Go to Hell (As in the Corporate-Obsessed-About-Shareholder-Value kind of Hell)

Jun 29, 2026

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4 min read

Create More or Go to Hell (As in the Corporate-Obsessed-About-Shareholder-Value kind of Hell)

I'm not Catholic, but I did go to a Catholic-affiliated university, so I'm basically qualified to speak on behalf of the pope.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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I wrote you an essay this week. Then I scrapped it.

Jun 20, 2026

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4 min read

I wrote you an essay this week. Then I scrapped it.

It was fine. That was the problem. Thankfully, there's always metawriting exercises and something better to build toward.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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The Peace of Wild Things

Jun 7, 2026

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6 min read

The Peace of Wild Things

On screens, summers, and the radical act of going outside.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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A Lesson on Learning: I've Decided I Like it Rough

May 23, 2026

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6 min read

A Lesson on Learning: I've Decided I Like it Rough

But in a Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi way, not (necessarily) a Mae West kind of way.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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Inevitability, a Dead Internet, and the Joy of Being Obstinate

May 13, 2026

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5 min read

Inevitability, a Dead Internet, and the Joy of Being Obstinate

Shady money shuffling leads to influencers repeating talking points about AI's inevitability, and the dominoes seem to be falling in that direction. But alas... there's still hope.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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It’s not just Language, it’s Mentality. | Delving into the Mainstreamification of Load-Bearing Corporate and AI Slop

May 8, 2026

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5 min read

It’s not just Language, it’s Mentality. | Delving into the Mainstreamification of Load-Bearing Corporate and AI Slop

LLMs and similar tools have a flattening effect on language. What does that mean for how we understand our place in the world?

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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Thinking like a forest (and fighting crime in high fashion)

Apr 30, 2026

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6 min read

Thinking like a forest (and fighting crime in high fashion)

On James Bridle, planetary intelligence, and the strange media that teaches us how to exist in the world.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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Is My Newsletter a Side Project or a Side Hustle? I Genuinely Don't Know.

Apr 18, 2026

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6 min read

Is My Newsletter a Side Project or a Side Hustle? I Genuinely Don't Know.

Regardless, I don't intend to peddle sh*tty t-shirts based on wall-art quotes. (It'll make sense, I promise.)

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

Distraction

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WTF, How is it Already 8:30?

Apr 9, 2026

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8 min read

WTF, How is it Already 8:30?

A Nobel laureate explains why your morning keeps slipping away from you.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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I Couldn't Focus on My Reading. So I Did This Instead.

Apr 3, 2026

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11 min read

I Couldn't Focus on My Reading. So I Did This Instead.

Haring, Morrison, Le Guin, and dealing with shitty weeks that make creativity hard.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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My Fantasy Novel is Bad and It's My Fault

Mar 26, 2026

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10 min read

My Fantasy Novel is Bad and It's My Fault

On the Halo Effect, Dunning-Kruger, and giving your creativity table scraps and wondering why it's not growing.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

Distraction

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Taste Cannot Be Mindless

Mar 12, 2026

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4 min read

Taste Cannot Be Mindless

Which makes it the most interesting weapon against scrolling I've found lately.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

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The Comfort of Competence

Mar 5, 2026

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9 min read

The Comfort of Competence

On retreating to what you're good at when everything else falls apart

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

Distraction

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I Want to Read More. So, Why Am I Sitting Here on Instagram?

Feb 26, 2026

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9 min read

I Want to Read More. So, Why Am I Sitting Here on Instagram?

Willpower, weed gummies, and the war for my mornings.

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

Distraction

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The Rest Paradox: Why Scrolling Doesn't Restore You

Feb 19, 2026

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9 min read

The Rest Paradox: Why Scrolling Doesn't Restore You

Why your weekends feel wasted and what to do about it

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

Distraction

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At 15, I Wrote an Entire Novel. Now I Can Barely Write for 30 Minutes at a Time.

Feb 12, 2026

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7 min read

At 15, I Wrote an Entire Novel. Now I Can Barely Write for 30 Minutes at a Time.

On Attention Attrition and the Decline of Deep Focus

Blake Reichenbach
Blake Reichenbach

Non-Slop Fun

Witty, irreverent writing about escaping digital exhaustion. For creatives who want to stop scrolling and start reading and making things again.

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