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Michael Dean
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Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.

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Recent Essays

Best Time to Be a Writer

· 38 words

2025 might be the best time to be a writer. We’re at the edge of a new time, a writer’s apocalypse, a golden age of the essay, or who knows. It’s a collective paranoia, a mass uncertainty, and it’s that kind of restlessness that requires writers to make sense of.