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Rare wine review: Hewitson Old Garden Mourvèdre 2019

December 29, 2023September 24, 2023

My take on Hewitson’s Old Garden Mourvedre, in the style of ‘Drops of God’.

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Rhetorical devices, ranked

September 20, 2023June 25, 2023

Learn these turns of phrase to join a club occupied by Shakespeare and Taylor Swift.

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Godspeed you content capitalists

September 24, 2023October 14, 2020

The “epic finale” of my series about money and content being the same thing, sort of.

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Turns out cash and content are both king

September 20, 2023October 8, 2020

The second part of my series about the links between content and payments.

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Stripe proves words are worth billions

September 24, 2023September 1, 2020

A pandemic-era post about Stripe actually being a content company.

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Valentine Watkins

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