A distant echo of Bowie's Blackstar and Outside resonates beneath the surface—an undercurrent of haunted grandeur that never settles into the familiar, emerging through shifting time signatures, elliptical motifs, and alluringly cryptic lyrical phrases. Yet its center of gravity leans heavier—something like Faith No More’s shapeshifting aggression, Mastodon’s seismic weight, or The Mars Volta’s fever-dream pacing flicker through the mix, though never predictably.

What can a collaborative approach teach us about building compelling characters?

Through conversations and one shot Actual-play episodes, we explore how the tools we use shape the stories we tell, whether those tools are implicit or explicit.

Lost in Myth doesn’t rewrite so much as reframe the self-titled demo it’s built upon. The skeletal urgency and cosmic weirdness of its origins have evolved into something denser, more volatile—a study in structure and collapse.

As we welcome 2025, I’m excited to share updates on my latest projects and what’s on the horizon. 

A podcast on memetics, myth and propaganda: how our narratives define the limits of our political and personal identity, how any era of civilization may be consigned to myth just as it was defined by it.

This week on FUTURE FOSSILS we ask, whom do we serve? Who gives us power, and to whom do we give ours? Where does that power come from? To whom do we sell our stories?

We explore the world behind the world, linking Jamie’s writing and game world-building in the domain he calls myth punk, and the equally Eldritch complex systems wicked problem of climate action.

Speculative Hurdles Towards Evaluating Artificial General Intelligence. These initial speculations deal with embodiment, evolutionary dynamics, and the potentials of both biological and artificial intelligences, with the intention of clarifying my premises, rooted in prior research and introspection.

Reports from the Bunker at the End of Time

Another era closes its eyes. The air is thick with a sleepy silence that is not the absence of sound, but the presence of too much lost meaning. …

A quote is making the rounds on social media: “The correct response to uncertainty is mythmaking.” This idea, now amplified in the digital age, is as essential in our accelerated, virtual world as it likely was around a campfire 20,000 years ago. But a few things have changed. Bear with me a minute…

A thought-provoking essay on the riddle of cooperation amidst global crises.