Wandering Wondering Star

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

The Anxious Autocrat

Why Creative Excellence Requires Benevolent Dictatorship—And What to Do About It

Nov 30, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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the two drugs

a confession from inside the pharmacy

Nov 29, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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The Scale Has Changed

Nobody tells you that the day after you get what you wanted feels exactly like the day before.

Nov 26, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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The Woman in the Black Shell Jacket Takes the F Train at 6:47

The woman in the black shell jacket takes the F train at 6:47.

Nov 16, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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October 2025

We Built Mausoleums, Not Archives

The Algorithm Knows My Best Wasn't Enough

Oct 20, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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The War Between Brand and Performance Is Over. Both Agencies Lost. AI Won.

Fall of the Giants.

Oct 11, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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Interference Patterns: A “Sora 2” Story

This is what we mean when we say 'predictive.' Not that it knows what we want, but that it creates what we will want, then makes us think we wanted it…

Oct 5, 2025 • JoRoan Lazaro

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