Category: Work is Four Letters

As we get older, the creative, artistic spirit gets beaten out of you. You’re either told you suck, or you’re not gonna make money doing this, and people drop it, or they grow up feeling like they’re terrible at it, when it’s really just a skill you develop over time

I perceive myself as being someone who takes the agency of individual people very seriously, and think that It’s important to remind ourselves, continuously, that our choices actually do matter a great deal.

I desperately want the world to be better than it is, and so most of what I make is about that. It’s about trying to push us forward toward a future that is better than the shit we’re living in. The world’s gotta be better than this, like, it really does, we gotta fucking live…

Trump got re-elected and took office, I lost more than one job, and then DOGE happened. But 2026 is a new year.

When I have a good day at work, I get to know that I protected somebody from the system being cruel and racist and unfair and poised to screw up their life, in whatever way it’s poised to screw up their life.

I have never really wanted to do anything else. Have you ever read any of the James Herriot books? All Creatures Great and Small? I wanted to be him.

Our strength is in our relationships.

ChatGPT can pump out this code, but that’s not your job. Your job is knowing what code you need to write.

I watched a lot of towns in southern New Hampshire zone themselves out of existence.

Social work is, almost inherently, a radical profession.