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My Substack dives into the intersections of music, culture, and modern life, and also occasionally themes from my audio drama Life is Kwesi.

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If You’re Filming a Flock Camera, You Are a Flock Camera

How to Build a Self-Sustained Surveillance State

My Last Fucking Straw

Explaining Episode 3 of Life is Kwesi before I cool down

The Artists Who Want to Ban Art

Banning things is not what artists do. Ever.

Why I Made an Episode About My Dad Leaving Ghana (And Why I Still Don't Understand His Choice)

My dad left Ghana in his twenties to attend Indiana University.

“Why I Made an Episode About Killing Your Ego (And Why I Failed)”

Notes on my audio drama podcast

Majority Illusion

How Amplification, Distraction, and Adaptation Keep the American Experiment Running

Content Slop Walked So AI Could Run

Why the Attention Economy Made Artificial Creativity Inevitable

The Politics of Grief

Who we’re asked to remember and who we’re told to forget.

What If Machines Heard Us Dreaming?

Finding Wonder In A Future We’ve Been Taught To Fear

The Tyranny of “Show Your Work”

When Classroom Rule Became a National Pastime.