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A collection of 8 issues

Your product deserves a better story.

Most startups I know have the same problem. The product works. The team is sharp. The roadmap is clear. But ask them to explain what they do in a way that actually lands with a customer, an investor, or a journalist, and they go blank. That is not a communication

The Black List 2025: A Narrative Archetype Analysis

Every December, the Black List gives the industry a snapshot of what development executives are responding to. 74 scripts. 86 writers. Nearly 500 executives voting. What it does not tell you is what kind of stories they are responding to. Genre does some of that work. But genre is surface.

The Shapes of Founder Stories

Every founder story is the same. That's the problem. I've sat through enough pitch days to know the shape before the founder opens their mouth. There's a problem in the world. They saw it. Nobody else was solving it. So they built something. Now

The Grammar We Found

In the last post we asked whether narrative has a formal grammar the way music does. Whether there are discoverable parent structures underlying the thousands of story shapes we see across cinema. We have been working on that question for the past year. This post is what we found.

Is there a musical-scale equivalent for story structure? Clustering screenplay arcs to find out.

If AI takes the cognitive work, humanity defaults to stories and the arena - and we don't have a grammar for compelling narrative yet.

Create Accidentals with Intention

There is a hesitation when a story is measured. Because storytelling is treated as art. And structure is treated as constraint. They don't exist on opposite ends. Music shows this: every composition exists within a system, but within that framework, musicians interpret.

The Three Things That Define Great Storytelling

There are three things that define the strength of a narrative, and only one of them is the story itself. The story is contextual. Only a human being can decide whether it is worth telling. But once you have that validation, the question becomes whether the structure and arc actually

Why We're Starting This Blog

It started with a film club. Fifteen years ago, I was working in software and hosted monthly screenings where directors, producers, editors, and film enthusiasts would watch films together and talk about craft. What struck me then (and stayed with me) was how little data existed to help these creators