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How to keep your superhero team together

Given the many cinematic and streaming TV network opportunities available to today’s super-powered crime-fighter, it is harder than ever to…

11 min readSep 16, 2021

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Your Job is a Video Game: The Torch and Boomerang Phase

In the Golden Age of video arcades, there was nothing more intimidating, or enticing, to a kid than a new video game with some wacky…

4 min readJan 19, 2023

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Your Job is a Video Game Pt 2: The Sandbox Phase

As I have said elsewhere, the early stage of getting to know a new job is similar in a lot of ways to the early stage of playing a video…

3 min readApr 3, 2024

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Your Job is a Video Game Pt 2: The Sandbox Phase

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An Anthem for Part-Time Creatives

What does a Swedish alt-pop singer-songwriter know about life on the Greek artists’ colony of Hydra? Based on her song of the same name…

4 min readMar 25, 2024

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An Anthem for Part-Time Creatives

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In Praise of the Humble Access Database

The Good Ol’ Northwind Traders Tutorial Database

5 min readFeb 8, 2024

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In Praise of the Humble Access Database

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AI is not the Anti-Christ

For the better part of 2,000 years, Christians have been engaging in one of the faith’s most entertaining pasttimes: Antichrist spotting.

3 min readNov 25, 2023

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AI is not the Anti-Christ

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Album Review: History Books by The Gaslight Anthem

History Books, the new album from Gaslight Anthem has a few things going for it: it’s their first album as a band in six years, it’s more…

2 min readNov 17, 2023

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Album Review: History Books by The Gaslight Anthem

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Division is a feature of the U.S., not a bug

America does not have, and has never had, a single unifying culture. Yes, we all love pizza, television, Tom Hanks, and ice cubes in our…

5 min readJul 5, 2023

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Division is a feature of the U.S., not a bug

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Breakfasting at the Capital One Café

If there’s a polar opposite to the kind of underground, lefty, beat-poet-ridden coffee shop that American cities reliably produced from the…

4 min readMay 19, 2023

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How to Invent an Industry : TV

Photo by mahdi chaghari on Unsplash

7 min readMar 26, 2023

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How to Invent an Industry : TV

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AJ Mastav

AJ Mastav

Professional planner, unprofessional writer. Member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Also, a former Sunday School teacher.

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