Tara McMullin

On top of dealing with the actual content, moderators are probably using an interface that hasn’t been updated recently, because engineering resources go toward developing new products and functionality for customers. Improving the experience for content moderators is never at the top of a company’s to-do list. For example, an old interface might... See more

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

— Albert Camus

Untangling the question of what I want to make from what will sell feels like crawling out of a very deep well.

Worldbuilding, for me, was a form of expansive hope—a necessary imagination for being alive.

The slots that books that connected with readers once occupied are now increasingly occupied by the equivalent of the botshit that fills the first eight screens of your Google search results: book-shaped objects that have gamed their way to the top of the list.