Sometimes doing the right thing is a violation of the terms of service — I answered 800 questions. My word count was equivalent to 3 full-length novels. My writing had 20 million views in one year. Then one day I was banned and the content I created was deleted from the internet. It’s been over three years since I was banned from Quora. I‘ve…

The greatest rock journalist and the publication he put on the map returns — I rarely look at the dozens of press releases I get in my email every day. Out of boredom, I looked in the email folder I dump them in. Creem X Lester Bangs unpublished work: sneak peek the email said. That’s something I would pay to read. I had no…

How long should you stay hoping things get better? — Can you recover after not being emotionally or physically attracted to your partner? My friend posed this question on social media today. I started writing a response but the more I thought about it the less I wanted to answer. She wasn’t going to like what I had to say. …

The writings of a writer writing about the writing he wrote before — Three and a half years ago I published my first story on Medium. It was a story about absolutely nothing. I used to write stories about nothing all time. This story will be a return to my old form that I lost somewhere along my journey. I don’t want this…

How to slide into her DMs without being a creep — My experience Four years ago, I started a space on Quora called The Boneyard. There weren’t any spaces to post erotic literature, so I made one. A few months in I made a girl a moderator and she posted nude pictures of herself. Her pictures did 10 times the views of all…

Coming to terms with my failure to reproduce — My first life goal was to have kids. As far back as I can remember, I wanted to start my own family. Seemed like a sure thing when I was young. It’s not because I couldn’t find the right person. Any woman with a functioning uterus would have worked. Getting…

Sharing the tricks I’ve learned generating AI images that get hudreds of thousands of views on social media — The noob era In November of 2021 I generated my first image using AI.

The mistakes I made and what you can learn from them — I was there. The golden era of internet dating right after turn of the century. Dating sites appeared one day from out of nowhere and forever changed the way people found people to make new people with. …

My thoughts on the Hamas-Israel conflict — I didn’t want to talk about this. The preservation of our ancestral homeland is ingrained in my people. I’ve never been more conflicted about publishing a story. It’s nothing new but the media is treating it like is. The conflict has been ongoing but what happens doesn’t always make the…