James Shelley

§ Recent Articles

  • What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore?

    What happens to the craft of writing when our de facto global platform for sharing text no longer reinforces or recognizes the role or rights of authorship?

  • Uncertainty, as mantra

    We know as much about the future today as we did in November 2019, at which time every human on the planet had absolutely no idea what was about to happen.

  • Some High Mountain

    A timeless thought experiment, handed down through centuries and cultures, invites us to keep the human experience (and our personal ambitions) in sharp perspective.