Coming Out of the Shadow of David Foster Wallace’s Suicide
David Foster Wallace wrote the book that promised Generation X you could make demanding art and still be heard — and twelve years later, he was gone. JB Minton uses The End of the Tour, and the confession buried inside its late-night hotel-room scene, to ask what Infinite Jest actually warned us about, and why the warning outlived the man who wrote it. This is an essay about attention, fame, and the cost of being right too early.
Why Gen X Is the Perfect Generation to Adopt AI As Artists & Professionals
Generation X learned the world through card catalogs and rotary phones, then spent every year since teaching itself the next machine — dial-up, cloud, now the ones that write back. That amphibian training, not any credential, is the real argument here: it's why Gen X is positioned to lead AI adoption without either worshipping the tool or refusing it. The essay works through what that leadership looks like in creative practice, and in the unglamorous, unavoidable work of getting a company's data honest before any of it can be automated.