A year and a half ago, I started writing WORK IS FOUR LETTERS. I’ve always been interested in talking to people about their work — what they do, why they do it, how they got into it — and thought it might be interesting reading for other people who have the same curiosities I do. I’ve published several of these pieces, and I think they’re all really interesting. I’ve also conducted many, many more of these interviews, and here’s where the SPLAT! comes in.
Around the time I dropped off publishing WORK IS FOUR LETTERS pieces, three important things happened: Trump got re-elected and took office, I lost more than one job, and DOGE happened. On the latter, I ended up writing a series of shorter pieces styled after WORK IS FOUR LETTERS called DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS, which I’m still proud of. But, between my own search for work, conducting interviews and reviews via Signal and the general insanity of early 2025, I fell behind on the WORK IS FOUR LETTERS interviews I had done.
Then I fell very behind.
Then I fell impossibly behind.
If you’re reading this, and you wonder why I never followed up with you, it’s because I ended up needing to work more than I needed to do these pieces and I just ended up having to choose between the two.
Please take this as an apology, I’m sorry for having wasted your time, and it absolutely wasn’t intentional, I just didn’t know what I was getting myself into trying to publish more than once a month.
WORK IS FOUR LETTERS 2026
I’m starting again this year, with a bang, and intend to go pretty hard on it. I hope you enjoy reading these even half as much as I enjoy having these conversations.
I’ve got some interesting interviews lined up this year, and they’ll be a little different than what I’ve done in the past, but all work is work, and all work is four letters, and I’m excited to share the stories of why people do what they do, and how they do it, through all of 2026.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE 