I’m writing outside the soulless algorithms I spent years bowing down to

My newsletter, The Rogue Scribe, isn’t for everyone. But more importantly, it’s not a newsletter for soulless algorithms that try to dictate our lives.

If you’re reading this as a current subscriber and you know someone who’d be interested in my work, this is the article you’ll want to share. It’s literally an overview of what The Rogue Scribe is all about. Spread the word and help out the cause, letting readers know there are still authors out there who write for them, and not algorithms.

And now, onto the good stuff.

I walked away from corporate sports media because I got tired of writing things that didn’t matter. It was full of content designed to fill space, takes sanded down until they couldn’t offend a spreadsheet (I once got told off because I used “insane” in a headline), and stories filtered through institutions that reward compliance and punish dissent.

The people I worked for hated pushback, I can tell you that much. And once you see that rot, you can’t unsee it. Worse yet, it’s everywhere except in places that remember we create for people and not machines.

I saw writers trained to self-censor before they even thought about self-expression. It was so performative. Whereas I pushed back, my co-workers responded to our directors with “saluting” emojis. Shift gears to my fiction endeavor, and I saw authors encouraged to chase platforms instead of building unique worlds.

Just check out a course from some mainstream marketing “gurus,” and they’ll tell you all you need to know. I’ve personally taken some of those courses.

Everything, from corporate sports media to fiction, taught me one thing: modern creative culture doesn’t actually want independence. If it did, I’d still be writing about something Elliotte Friedman said. It wants obedience dressed up as authenticity. Even when there’s nothing authentic about it.

I write for people who refuse to be reduced to data by soulless algorithms

The Rogue Scribe exists as an alternative. It’s a place for readers and creators who still believe art should belong to the artist, not an institution that granted them permission to create that art.

It’s for readers who believe stories are meant to challenge real institutional power, not flatter it. Readers who haven’t let go of the idea that self-ownership matters. Not just economically, but from intellectual, spiritual, and creative standpoints.

A lot of what I write lives in the overlap between creative independence, libertarian self-ownership, myth and memory, spiritual-adjacent aesthetics, and a deep distrust of corporate culture and centralized authority. Earned distrust, since I spent time in that ecosystem.

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