Eukaryote Writes Blog

I’m back this April as a writing advisor for the second Inkhaven cohort – a month-long blogging residency where residents must post every day or get kicked out.

I posit that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all life on earth was a lichen, and that this simplifies a lot of the origin of life complexity.

Last November I had the privilege to be a writing coach at the Inkhaven residency, an experimental month-long blogging retreat in Berkeley, California that attempted to pressure-cook the nutrients, insights, and words out of stellar writers using a simple…

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Here’s a game I’m playing with my internet friends in 2026.

Right now I’m coaching for Inkhaven, a month-long marathon writing event where our brave residents are writing a blog post every single day for the entire month of November.

If you live in this one tiny county in California, you might be more likely to die from Sin Nombre Virus than in a car crash.

Man, I don’t think so.

Art has died and been reborn a thousand times now.

Remember early 2020 and reading news articles and respected sources (the WHO, the CDC, the US surgeon general…) confidently asserting that covid wasn’t airborne and that wearing masks wouldn’t stop you from catching it?