Derek MacDonald

I don't know why I'm suddenly resisting innovation. For most of my life, I've been driving it. My fi...

It was an accident. Ok—no it wasn't. But it's not like I went looking for it. It just sort of... hap...

On days when you can't do a lot, try for a little.

I'm listening to a podcast, but all I can think of are Henry David Thoreau's words from Walden, "I w...

My whole life has been shaped by rapid tech innovation. That’s the blessing and the curse of being a...

I don't know when playing got so hard. It didn't used to require so much thinking... and, if anythin...

I've been playing chicken with the line between creating and critiquing for as long as I can remembe...

Before deleting the Substack app, I worried about not finding new stuff to read, but then I realized...

I used to be part of multiple friend groups, but not anymore... not really.

Wipers whipping, rain hammering the windshield, and I'm dumbfounded. Then, I'm both impressed and mi...