by sutherland | Jan 11, 2017 | business, taxes
This post is part of my Business of Writing series. As part of this series, I discuss law and taxes, so it's important for you to remember that I'm neither a lawyer nor a tax professional. This is not advice -- it's my understanding and, in many cases, what I do and...
by sutherland | Nov 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and...
by sutherland | Sep 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
ReviewMeta’s an interesting idea. Analyze product reviews and try to weed out the bought and paid for. Lord knows that’s an issue — and one that makes the review system on sites like Amazon less useful for everyone. The problem is data analysis is...
by sutherland | Sep 15, 2016 | patreon
I’ve been working on a Patreon page for several months now — as well as hemming and hawing about whether to actually make it public. Patreon’s a rather different model — one I’m not entirely sure I’m comfortable with — because...
by sutherland | Aug 16, 2016 | fiction, recommendation
Tim and his friends find out the hard way that you shouldn’t question the game master, and you shouldn’t make fun of his cape. One minute, they’re drinking away the dreariness of their lives, escaping into a fantasy game and laughing their asses off....