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Department of Works tier now LIVE

Department of Works tier now LIVE

Announcing the launch of the new premium membership tier on the Pleasant Green site.

This is Not a Waste of Time

This is Not a Waste of Time

My friend Joseph Brett posted this video yesterday. He made it over God-knows-how-many hours/weeks/months. Jokingly, when he posted, he referred to it as "time-wasting". I'm sure he doesn't really think that, but I want to underline that doing something creative, with love

On Audubon

I was going to write something else entirely today, but then I came upon this piece: How to Triumph Over the Challenges of the Creative Life: Audubon’s Antidote to Despair – The Marginalian and it has been obsessing me. The eagle-eared will know that Aldrich Kemp keeps a (stolen) first

A few days away...

A few days away...

Inspiration from Amsterdam.

Changes to the Pleasant Green Blog...

Changes to the Pleasant Green Blog...

New subscription tiers on the Pleasant Green site.

2024-10-08 - Interview link

2024-10-08 - Interview link

I recently did an interview with design expert Andy Polaine for his Power of Ten podcast. It's essentially an hour of me banging on about film and TV development and the state of the industry. If that sounds like it might be up your street, it's

2024-09-15

The above image is one of my favourites from any comic book, and the quote is one that I have returned to over and over again since I first read it in Planetary many years ago. This all prompted by Warren Ellis’s piece today on the untimely death of

2024-09-10

This morning, I would like to direct your kind attention to the Rise Calendar. Until recently, Rise was just another nice looking calendar app with a neat feature which would automatically block out time for focused work if your weekly schedule started getting too heavy. Now, though, Rise has entered

2024-09-09

It has been a minute...

PSA: The Department of Midnight

PSA: The Department of Midnight

If you like your science fiction to lean a little harder on the science, if you like your supernatural stories to be a little more inquisitive, if you like a dose of horror with your folk, then you have a treat in store... Warren Ellis's new audio drama,

Temporal - Behind the Scenes

Temporal - Behind the Scenes

I'm wary of doubling up and dumping the same thing into a lot of your inboxes twice, so this is me pointing you to a long-ish piece on the making of Temporal. If you haven't already received it, it's free to read on Substack

Temporal available now...

Temporal available now...

Morning all. A quick note to remind everyone that our new audio sci-fi show, Temporal, is available as of today from Audible. I'm going to write more about how this all came to be very soon. The short version is that this is an epic sci-fi/time-travel adventure,

A new App Stack - July 2024

A new App Stack - July 2024

The first half of this year has been pretty busy with writing projects, and the meat of my procrastination has involved venturing down the usual rabbit holes of new productivity and notes apps. Now that I’m slowly coming up for air, it becomes apparent that I have pretty much

Announcing Temporal

Announcing Temporal

As you may have seen elsewhere, our new audio series TEMPORAL is set for release on August 1st. I'm going to write more about how this came to be sometime soon, but this is the first show that my company Storypunk has produced. We financed it independently, produced

On Paper

It’s increasingly rare that I get excited about apps nowadays - it just seems like the more you play with a new toy, the more shortcomings you find. This is especially true with the current iterate-as-you-go methodology, which sees apps released to the public before they are really ready.

2024-07-06

So that was a week - we recorded the entirety of Season 3 of Aldrich Kemp from Monday to Thursday, and then got a shiny new government on Friday. Not a bad week's work. The recording went incredibly well, and every single member of the cast was on

Nosferatu

At last, it's being done properly:

2024-06-24

Have been hopping between apps like mad these past few weeks, as one and then another added new features or offered major updates. i've found lots to like, as well as lots of cases where an app WILL be good but hasn't got there yet. But

2024-06-19

I have, for some time, being wanging on about the amazing Tana app. Now that Tana Core has been released, I have a handful of invites to distribute. These offer Tana at the initial pricing, which is cheaper than it will be when it goes public, and I believe there

2024-06-18

Some bits and pieces on PKM

2024-06-16

A link to my first longform piece.

2024-06-11

Glancing through MyMind this morning, I surfaced this piece: How to Stop Having All Your Digital Information Scattered All Over the Place, which seemed unusually pertinent. I am struggling with too many PKM options at the moment. Each time I think I've found the sweet spot, some app

2024-06-10

I’m writing this in Scrintal, as a way to kick the tyres on an app that I have not really paid too much attention to up until now. A few pieces I’ve read recently by Ece Kural, the creator, most recently this one, indicate that there are some