At the bar he scrolled his phone. He had to know, what was Kyle Sardisnsky doing. He searched at the bar, his screen lighting his face up blue. He was in the booth. No one around him. His drink had a stream of bubbles trying to escape. 

He checked  LinkedIn...

Imogen Howe   was worried. Keith hadn’t replied in a week, and his phone location just showed up as cannot find. Part of her wanted to go there, but she also didn’t know if this was him trying to tell her something. 

What if she was the cruel one? If she...

Imogen was on her phone a lot. Checking it here and there. At one point she ran outside and was talking to someone, then she seemed to calm down. Jack noticed this, she acted like his assistant. Vigilant concerned. Jack looked at his burner phone, no one had his number...

The next morning Alan's mom woke up before the boys. They snored, and she crept around it was 7am. Her coffee machine was timed to start brewing thirty minutes before. She poured it into a thermos, and got into the car. She knew that only by the time she got...

She started watching Keith, like how she used to watch the others. First it started just searching for his name. Keith, then his last name Rawling. That didn't turn up much, some weird  Facebook profiles but nothing else. Then she looked on  LinkedIn there nothing. 

"Could he have changed his...

The day of the robbery James was hung over. The night before he met with friends. Some he liked a little, one he liked a lot, and a few he didn't know. New  LinkedIn friends he thought, and already in the morning he had requests. Everyone interested in his job. ...

The work wasn't chaos. In fact Keith liked it. There was some bitter that came with the new fruit. Nearly half his previous coworkers were laid off. And he was doing double the work as before. But he was barely doing anything before. So the doubling didn't affect him much....

In effort to promote more deep work , I've started making my phone harder to use, and in a sense make it dumber. I recently stumbled across some actual products offering dumb or simple phones, but just setting up my phone to make it harder to get it seems good...

No action is ever out of the question.

There is always a proper place and time for anything.


Take a man's daughter from him

and threaten to kill her

but give him a chance to slit your throat

and he will.


When looked at like this

life is less about the individual

and more about the setting.


But who...

They offered a deal she couldn't refuse. And this was precisely why she died so unhappy.

But you couldn't blame her... seeing as it was indeed an offer impossible to refuse. So in fact her fate was sealed... the moment the offer was given.

I remember not knowing what to say...