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The Working Class Work Ethic
We built things with our hands, then started writing Twitter threads about building things with our hands
Craig Burgess
Jun 25
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The dumb idea of dumbing down
And the piece where I rail against 'Digital Writing'
Craig Burgess
Jul 26
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nuffink
A short story about absolutely nothing
Craig Burgess
Jul 19
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Beaches
I don’t like beaches. It’s not a fevered hatred, like somebody who flat-out can’t stand reality TV and thinks it’s the decline of humankind. No, it’s…
Craig Burgess
Jul 11
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This Is Not Value
As I sit here trying to think what to write, starting to type these very words that you’re now reading in an effort to delay the fact that I should say…
Craig Burgess
Jun 19
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Scatology
I don’t know when it all got shit. I guess it would have been somewhere between now and the last century. Somewhere around where people used to write…
Craig Burgess
Jul 3
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The Number
The number doesn’t go up faster when you watch it. The number doesn’t care about your obsession with it. The number increases when you make progress…
Craig Burgess
Jun 20
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What is content?
Content—we’re led to believe—is a little like the words making up this sentence you’re now reading. Individually, the words mean very little. Sure, you…
Craig Burgess
Jun 18
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Destroy your audience
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been saying a phrase on Twitter that has been confusing a few folk. Destroy your audience. Every time I said it…
Craig Burgess
Jun 18
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Contentalife
It's absolutely not a pyramid scheme
Craig Burgess
Jun 18
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And Online But Online
When you next sit back on your chair for five minutes, riddle me this: What’s the point of being online? I think about this a lot. Not in a negative or…
Craig Burgess
Apr 19
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One Fifth Famous, Four Fifths Broken
They say you should write when you’re fired up. When you’ve got a bee in your bonnet as we Brits say. Well. I’ve never owned a bonnet nor ever found a…
Craig Burgess
Jun 18
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