Jeff Garvin

My Deaf* Sexist Phlebotomist On being liked versus being effective

How a recent encounter with a professional vampire got me thinking about my own bedside manner.

open.substack.com/pub/jeffgarv...

Thank you, Johannes!

JFK Gather your team, prep your subpoenas, and prepare to take on the military-industrial complex.  This is The Hero’s Journey℠ of JFK.

🇺🇸NEW EPISODE!🔫Gather your team, prep your subpoenas, and prepare to take on the government!  This is The Hero's Journey℠ of JFK. LISTEN NOW: herosjourneypodcast.com/jfk/
The Hero's Journey℠ Podcast is a fun, insightful look at stories through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s Hero's Journey.

Thank you for sharing. I am hearing a lot of that. Making me rethink my strategies.

SHOULD WE ALL QUIT INSTAGRAM? Navigating social media now that Zuck has kissed the ring

Since Zuck has kissed the ring, should we all just quit?

open.substack.com/pub/jeffgarv...

“Let them drink tea.”

😂

You’re only saying that because of all the overwhelming evidence

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

So far my favorite things about BlueSky are the absence of Nazis and the scalable font

My dad always said the political pendulum swings, but this feels more like a wrecking ball.

I’m here for the puns as much as the tech news

Kinda feels like the people in charge now are those same dudes who take up two parking spaces at Walmart to accommodate their ridiculously jacked pickups.

Congratulations, Agency Sibling!

Feeling pretty disappointed in social media. All my followers are on meta platforms, and they're (probably) about to devolve into an X-style mess.

👻NEW EPISODE!🎄Pour yourself a Tab & vodka, hunker down in your office, and prepare for an 80s retelling of a classic Christmas tale. This is The Hero's Journey℠ of Scrooged. herosjourneypodcast.com/scrooged

Touching Glass Has Tech Made Experiencing Art Worse?

My latest piece on art and technology: Touching Glass open.substack.com/pub/jeffgarv...

Star Wars happens A LONG TIME AGO in a galaxy far, far away. This makes it historical fiction.

This whole thread has me titillated and ROTFLMAO! #Narrator #Audiobooks

Need recs. What is your favorite workout logging app? #weightlifting

I love my new gym. I worked out 4x this week for the first time in years.

Man, I miss playing pen-and-paper D&D.

I almost complimented an illustration posted here, but instead, I scrolled past; I have no way of knowing whether it’s AI generated. The provenance of art is important to me. I hope it stays important to the general public, too. Maybe this means the art economy will be more localized in the future.

I’ve been editing the same scene in my third draft for TWO WEEKS. It’s a love scene fraught with moral and philosophical complications—but, of course, those have to take a backseat to character and story. And it’s all in first person. Why do I do this to myself? Screw you, past Jeff 😡

Me too, Rachael. Me. Too.

Yes I was talking about the old phone keyboards 🤣

That’s pretty awesome.

🤣

After 15 years of owning a touch screen phone, I still imagine I could type faster and more accurately on my an old physical keyboard. Is this phonestalgia?