The Story So Far

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The Debrief: Late Night with the Gig Man’s Life

Articles and Discussions Coming to The Gig Man’s Life Tonight, I want to give a quick rundown of some of the articles and discussions coming up on the website. Some of this material is practical, some of it is opinionated, and some of it is the result of looking at a subject and realizing that…

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BreakFast Talk on Rumble

This chat covered the production and breakdown of a Gig Man’s Life broadcast, including a short standalone YouTube segment and the broader Breakfast Talk discussion that followed. 1. Opening commentary: upselling, platform friction, and content overload The broadcast opened with frustration over platforms constantly asking users to try new features. You compared those prompts to traditional sales…

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Five Days with G: The Wrong Game is a fictional story that has been sitting in my head, in one form or another, for about thirty years.

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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The Company Store Became an App

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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Ironheart, Armor Wars, and How Marvel Screwed the Pooch

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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Breakfast Talk: Building Five Days with G in Real Time

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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