He was a  Wordpress consultant. He didn't know how he became that. When he first learned to  code he picked up some gigs writing Wordpress features for random  clients . This was in his early twenties. It was a good way to make some change while figuring out what the...

Except for one month, I wrote everyday for 12 years. I remember vividly the winter afternoon I stopped such a habit. It was a few days after my 36th birthday. I'd taken the day off from work. And just like on any day off from work I had been lazily...

"Mark... are you alright?"

"Yeah."

"What's wrong? I can tell. Something's off. Come on. I haven't seen you like this since the days... Well you know. Back when Sean was around. And Eduardo was threatening to shut down all our servers... and damn, we were still writing fucking  PHP . God I...

Sam Barley sat lazily, throbbing back and forth against the mesh net of his mid-tier office chair, thinking about one thing: the only thing guys in their mid 20s employed at a 9 to 5 thought of at this time of day. He rubbed his belly. lunch .

He wondered whether...

They say if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

If you don't live for something, then you'll just wait around to die.

What is it like to wait around to die?

I think the  internet  was the perfect invention for people waiting around to die. This is not to say...

"Now I know there's a lot of millennials out there. So this next song goes out to you. You'll know what song it is right from the first line. If you don't then you must not've been rockin it in the 2000's. Keep it dialed here to one oh two...

When he came out to the living room finally after washing up she had a  coffee waiting for him. He gulped. She never made him coffee or tea. It was always him doing that. She must be upset about something.

This was the cost of being at fault. Having done something...

Whenever she looked at the  urine in the toilet she thought of how wasteful the  human body was. All of that was dirty  blood . Filtered out from the carmine fluid, deemed as unfit. Her cells had to respirate, had to keep burning energy. And in that waste was produced.

Then...

He swallowed the  zinc pill with the water, gulped, and hoped he had enough in his belly. He had definitely eaten enough for breakfast, but it had been some time since then. Maybe he ought to have waited until he had lunch. Yes that would have been the safer move,...

What seems most apparent when comparing ourselves to people of "the old days"

is that they only fought for one thing.

Their lives.


This is the trick that every modern generation plays on themselves.

Thinking they are not fighting for their lives.

When with every single breath we are.


Time is not running out.

But time is...