When Things Break

I’m old. That’s a given. Okay, so mom says I’m now middle aged. But she’s 87 almost 88 so, you know? She might be somewhat biased.

But here’s the thing, I know all the things that don’t work on writing and publishing, at least the traditional version of those, but like everyone else, I kept deluding myself that other fields worked fine.

You kind of have to, if you want to sleep at night.

Only it’s become more and more obvious that other things don’t work either. Take academia and sc...