Essays, craft notes, and build logs — the editorial side of skipdfluff. Published when there's something worth saying, and not before.
A note on respect: when a product page runs longer than the product itself, the product is the page. A short argument against "value stacking," fake urgency, and other inherited crimes of the creator-economy era.
read the piece →Three-dimensional mockups, editorial imprint marks, and the problem with AI-generated cover art. A practical note on the specific kinds of careful we want our book objects to look like.
read the piece →Why skipdfluff will stay small, why that isn't a retreat, and what the A24 model actually means here. An introduction, for the record.
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