Two things I was paid to understand.

What happened to strength a century ago is happening, now, to intelligence.

An old story about a lost sword and self-perception.

MIXC and MEXC are one vowel apart. That is not a coincidence.

I used to think elegance was ornament. I was incomplete.

A theocratic faction in a video game taught me something about the moral arithmetic of order.

Wong Kar-wai, Tennessee Williams, and a swift that sleeps on the wing.

A Japanese strategy game contains a distinction most careers never make explicit.

Month Seventeen does not exist. But in some languages, it is easy to say.