Essays on connection, repair, and the occasional joke that saved my life. Fifty-odd of them, and counting.
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The great Rebecca Cunningham of Girl Tales cast me to play a bunch of characters in Nina Ki’s retelling of…
Okay, so, the goofy thing I did about the 2020 Republican National Convention actually did capture that traffic I noticed…
I did a search yesterday to see if I could find the attendees for this year’s Republican National Convention. This…
A press profile on Fred’s comedy and storytelling work, by Matt Levy for A Profile About You.
Podcast guest appearance on My First Sketch, Ep. 159 — children’s programming, puppetry, and Oreos.
One of 100 scene partners opposite Alia Shawkat in the 24-hour performance piece The Second Woman, BAM Next Wave 2019.
A story told at Columbia’s Narrative 2019 symposium, on family, memory, and Korean ghost tradition.
The Viability Principle: Understand People’s Needs — a talk for The Product Podcast (Product School) on MVP thinking and product…
Puppet performance (Cleveland) on Max & Natalie LIVE, Ep. 36, at The People’s Improv Theatre, NYC.
You have your big risk, the big thing you’re working on in mind. There’s a lot of ways to get…
What is Meeting Aikido? This probably has an actual name in a business book somewhere, but this is a name…
“Mad Men” has this great scene, where Don Draper and the team present a really new idea to Heinz ketchup…
The value of practicing creative work daily, especially if you even slightly ritualize it, is when moments come where you…
Math is strange in the U.S. We use Arabic symbols, Latin-root words for counting, and a base ten number system…
I had a weird dream last night again. I’m at someone’s house, and their living room is covered in these…
I started writing these on my own, then at classes at the Magnet and the Upright Citizens Brigade, because I…
When you pressure yourself to be brilliant, you can often end up robbing yourself OF your brilliance. The idea that…
Lifecycle of a Science Story in 21st Century American Media, starring SETI …
I love and hate to practice. I like to work hard and get into a zone when I focus on…
I continued work on a piece about why I’m making Thigments https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lWgr87_k7nT11VTN0_rPmJgfX5SARY4wJSV0-awpuy0/edit I’ve been chasing this rainbow since 1997 in…