Wandering Wondering Star

The Warmest Warning

A creative director's love letter to a company he can't stop using and can't stop questioning.

Feb 18 • JoRoan Lazaro

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The Hollowing

What happens when your desire is enormous and the thing you're pointing it at has been engineered to never push back.

Feb 14 • JoRoan Lazaro

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The Exchange Rate of Damage

The thing I'm afraid of isn't a machine that writes better than me. It's a world where the specific damages that make people legible to each other start…

Feb 8 • JoRoan Lazaro

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The Shape of the Problem

The first time it works, really works, something unlocks in my chest.

Feb 1 • JoRoan Lazaro

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January 2026

Authorship Vertigo: On AI, Alchemy, and the Art You Didn’t Make

I built a career on making things. Now I'm nodding at my screen in the dark, unable to tell if I'm the alchemist or just the person approving the…

Jan 24 • JoRoan Lazaro

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Good Goodbye

Last month, at the Blue Dragon Film Awards in Seoul, a singer named Hwasa performed a song called “Good Goodbye.”

Jan 17 • JoRoan Lazaro

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I'm Still Checking If You're Watching

On keeping things and wanting it to matter

Jan 10 • JoRoan Lazaro

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The Quality Cliff

How creative organizations become optimized for mediocrity—and the point where even the founder can't reverse it

Jan 3 • JoRoan Lazaro

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December 2025

What Looks Like Walking, Resembles Motion (She's Still Gone)

There is a formula for Cantonese street swearing.

Dec 27, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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Ask Me Again Next Year

I’ve been watching myself watch the year end.

Dec 14, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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Not—not ironically

People are writing eulogies for an AI model.

Dec 7, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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November 2025