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It is with a heavy heart and gut-wrenching disappointment that I must announce the suspension of production on my Horace Silver documentary. For the past four months, I have been deeply immersed in what was to be my fifth feature-length documentary, a project driven by love and dedication. As a devoted Horace Silver fan for over sixty years, the chance to tell the story of his life and music was both thrilling and daunting.

PvP and PvE - if you’re a gamer you know what these terms mean - but for everyone else: they stand for Player vs Player and Player vs Environment respectively. You may have seen many people in the crypto ecosystem referencing these concepts over the last years or so to describe crypto market conditions so in today’s piece I wanted to dive a bit deeper into it. So, why is crypto currently a PvP environment?

“Young men, let me make a suggestion to you: Why don’t you turn off the computer, log off the porn, and go ask a real woman on a date. How ’bout that? Just a thought. Ask her out. Young men, why don’t you be the ones who do the asking, how ’bout that? Don’t wait for her. You go ask — show her a little respect.  And then you take her out, and you treat her right.

How can you work more effectively with diverse individuals and teams as a product leader? We all tend to have our "go-to" explanations when things go wrong at work. A couple of examples: You can usually boil things down to leadership issues. That and grit and perseverance. Remember what Demming said. The system causes 94% of performance variations, not the workers! Most people don't take things seriously enough. They are not detail-oriented.

Photo credit - Vicky Grout What does an average weekday look like for you? There’s no average weekday for me, which is what I like best. I’m a Pisces. What are the themes you often come back to in your work?  Conversation is at the heart of everything I do. From my activism with nail transphobia, to my book To My Trans Sisters, to my BBC doc Transitioning Teens, to what I do on social media @charlie_craggs.

Share Spoiler alert. Darkness ahead. There is only one way this ends well, with some Russian Army guy or FSB hood putting a bullet into Vladimir Putin’s brain, before Putin knows what’s happening. It would be lovely to entertain a fantasy of bloodless revolution, with millions of Russians joining hands to simply wish away the Ghost of Stalin Past who appears have taken up residence in the Kremlin, but that’s not how these things play out.

You guys remember the show Entourage? It was an HBO dramedy that ran for (somewhat inexplicably) eight seasons in the early to late aughts, and followed the lives of a fictional A-list movie star and his buddies from back home. You remember Entourage—it’s the show that Jeremy Piven kept winning Emmys for over actors that were actually funny.  If you did watch it (and we haven’t in years, but we’d hazard a guess it’s one of those shows that, uh, doesn’t hold up all that great in a post-Me Too entertainment landscape?

LibsOfTikTok (LoTT) is an anti-trans hate group that has repeatedly harassed, defamed, and doxxed LGBTQ people, particularly trans, queer, and nonbinary individuals. LibsOfTikTok has also inspired hate groups and lone wolf hate attacks on the queer community as well. Attack on Kris Martin by LibsOfTikTok Kris Martin (he/they), a queer gay art teacher, was fired from Homer Community Consolidated School 33C after backlash spread online by LoTT in mid August.

I don’t like the term “queer”. It should go without saying that I’m happy for anyone to use whichever labels they like to describe themselves. This just isn’t one that sits comfortably with me. That’s not because I find it offensive – though many older gay men do, and the fact this often isn’t even acknowledged frustrates me – but because it’s imprecise, nebulous, increasingly capacious and freighted with a substantial amount of political and philosophical baggage.