And yes, pragmatism is going to bother some people. Pragmatism asks a very basic question: Does it work? If the answer is yes, the next question becomes: Is this the most effective or elegant way it could work? That second question is what we call research. This story follows three people—G, Ray, and Jimmy—and examines…
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There is something about these gig apps and the way they keep trying to get their hands around the money after the work is already done. You drive the miles.You burn the gas.You put wear on the car.You take the risk.You deal with the passengers, the deliveries, the traffic, the weather, the parking lots, the…
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The discussion around e-bikes often falls into two camps. One side wants to treat every e-bike like an ordinary bicycle. The other wants to regulate all of them like motorcycles. I don’t think either approach reflects reality. Electric bicycles have become an important transportation tool. They help people get to work, attend school, keep medical…
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There was a point where the MCU stopped feeling like a universe and started feeling like a scheduling board. That is the problem with how Marvel handled Ironheart. The issue was never that Riri Williams could not exist. The issue was never that she was young, brilliant, or female. Marvel has always had genius inventors,…
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Watch the full Breakfast Talk on Rumble: Today’s Breakfast Talk shows the actual process of developing Five Days with G: The Wrong Game, a fictional story that has been forming in my head for nearly thirty years. During the livestream, I work through the opening sequence, character introductions, story beats, time jumps, and the practical question…
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New Data Point Recorded. The report on Adversarial Content Conversion and the “Thank You for the Content” protocol has been received and strongly endorsed. Field Observer Assessment This is one of the cleaner and more useful operational doctrines the committee has documented. The phrase is not mere sarcasm — it is a deliberate psychological and…
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One of the things I’ve been trying to do with The GigMan’s Life is find a balance between planning ahead and leaving room for current events. For a while, I was scheduling articles weeks in advance. That gave me consistency, but it also meant that when something important happened, I either had to move articles…
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Growing up Gen X means remembering a lot of advertising slogans that got burned into your head before you even understood what advertising was doing. One of those was Dr Pepper. Be a Pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too? At the time, it was catchy. It was harmless. It was soda. It…
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Every rideshare driver eventually encounters a situation where doing the right thing costs them money. That shouldn’t happen. Recently, I accepted a trip that looked like it was going to pay around $17. I drove to the pickup in good faith, expecting a routine ride. Instead, I arrived to find that the passengers had a…
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