Pete Michaud

How to Stick With It

I like my wife, but she makes my life miserable kind of frequently. And I feel shitty because I let her do that. I was inspired by Penelope Trunk’s intense honesty to write this. I read certain authors even though I don’t give a shit about their subject because they are just too good to ignore. I...

How My Failure on Video Turned to Success

Today was the day that months of effort, research and investment would have paid off if I hadn’t failed on video. The Setup I have been talking to a couple local photographers to figure out lighting equipment and environment issues. I bought the softbox lighting, and light stands. I bought the...

Achievement Porn

Hacker News pointed me to an article recently called “Addicted to Fake Achievement“. That article is about video games, but this one isn’t. The thesis of that article is that some games (it mentions Role Playing Games) don’t actually require skill, just time. You start with a weak...

The secret about writing that no one has the balls to tell you

The core of what I do for a living is writing, and when writing is brought up in conversation, someone inevitably says: “I’m not much of a writer.” And until now I didn’t have the testicular fortitude to say exactly what I thought about that. As far as I know, not many people do. But...