🦉 Michael Schofield
@schoeyfield.com
Serial-hobbyist making fantasy podcasts, audio dramas, and actual plays like #TheThief (http://thiefpodcast.com). Engineer. Librarian. Janeite. #AmHiring voice actors, artists, AP players. Reviewing at AmListening.substack.com.
I have a headscratcher of a gripe with The Odyssey. With as much focus on xenia, the violation of divine law, on the unending nature of reciprocal violence, they omitted Athena herself having to put an end to Odysseus's revenge. The theme being that only the divine can stop reciprocal violence.
My midlife crisis is presenting itself as a desire to get an MFA in Creative Writing or some other post-grad literature work.
I just watched The Death of Robin Hood. I just read some reviews from folks who thought it was boring, but - for me - 10/10 no notes. I had to sit in silence for about fifteen minutes to let it digest.
So I’ve been dogfooding my audio drama podcatcher (Bard) and I stumbled on Hannahpocalypse - which I’m legit loving. Also trying out my little share button. #audiodrama
I made a podcast player for actual plays and audio dramas, called Bard. After just about 40 test builds, it’s just about ready. Discovery is really dialed-in.
The philosophical struggle of the artist who is an engineer is against the soullessness of optimization.
📢 Casting call 📢 Hi, we're looking for a female narrator for our new game! No VA experience neeeded, and no accent preference. Must have access to ok mic, like a home podcasting setup. Paid gig, of course. Would love to hear reading samples in your natural voice: hi@calligramstudio.com 🙏❤️
I finished the first unseemly draft of my first unseemly novel 😭
Aw. Dan Simmons wrote one of the greatest novels, and I’ve enjoyed a ton of his work. What a bummer.
The paradigm shift comes with questioning why there must be a hand-off from product to engineering in the first place. stoic.substack.com/p/vigil-2-pr... by me #ai #engineering #product #design #ux
The world where this kind of emergent agent behavior is the norm. As the web makes itself more readily consumable by agents (Cloudflare creating a new “for agents” request header, for interest), means agents will stitch services together in ways that no one expected.
Why did the first person to eat a death cap mushroom do that? You'd think they would figure it out from the name
In my goal-tracking app (which is kind of nano-petty, and I am sending a Finch on adventures) I have a lot of daily goals around long-form attention. “Read articles without skimming,” “read 15 minutes of fiction that’s not on a screen,” etc. big recommend.
The state of having good alignment with your target ICP is to be "down with the clown."
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Hourly billing for engineering work is fundamentally incompatible with AI. If you are hiring contractors you need to revisit those contracts and renegotiate them as value-priced contracts; if you are a freelancer, you need to practice articulating a value you bring to the table other than time.
Every Hourly Billing Flaw Explained in Detail (And Why It Can’t Survive AI)
The Thomson Reuters 2026 legal market report, broken down for anyone who sells time — lawyers, consultants, accountants, advisors
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Our parlor does Friday the 13th flash event, and Naely and I had a couple hours to ourselves.
Product Engineering and Product Management are consolidating. Product engineers who are not proactively making strategic product decisions will obsolesce, just as product managers who are not proactively engineering will obsolesce.
This is the realest writing ever writ. "I used to have this dog, Shep. I thought Shep was a good classic name. I like one-syllable names for dogs. I lost him in 1995 and I couldn’t ever bring myself to get another one. I spend a lot of time alone." stephaniesweeney.substack.com/p/two-little...
two little stories from a man I barely knew
(these are love stories)
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A poetic sentence about not being present. "Everyone is very, singularly, focused on the end game. Everyone is also extraordinarily, profoundly, nostalgic." kyla.substack.com/p/buying-fut...
Buying Futures, Renting the Past: How Speculation and Nostalgia Became the Economy
Super Bowl ads, Jesus derivatives, and Gen Alpha's return to the theater
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mfw new relic ingests all of the data ever and hits me in the face with the invoice
My sleep deprived brain said "okay. yes. I want chess horror."
A new tense few minutes in the flash low-fantasy horror "Lady In Waiting," wherein a lady-in-waiting flees the kingdom long-walk style and struggles with exposure. This is the 7th episode, but they're "flash" - meaning ultra short. Human actors, no AI. open.spotify.com/show/7KJrADP...
Lady in Waiting • A Flash Folk-Horror // Day Eight | Hoot Cowl Roost
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My ears would like to ensure Anticrastination get made, aaand I think you would too 👀. bit.ly/anticrastina...
Anticrastination: A Comedy Audio Drama
A pair of people try to make a podcast about reaching goals and getting organized--and completely fail. A desperate comedy!
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The new 28 Years Later did the remarkable thing of being excellent. At this rate this may go down as one of the best trilogies. Can’t wait for number three.
I find it requires an uncanny amount of energy to just coexist with and compartmentalize the worldsuck. That just doing laundry is a willful act of hope.
