Monday Brief – January 5th
A weekly digest – part serious, part not – in partnership with The Sofia Globe Happy New Year to New York, London, Paris, Sofia! I…
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End-of-the-year digest – THE BOX IS THE BOX
A weekly digest – part serious, part not – in partnership with The Sofia Globe “Mirror, mirror on the digital wall, who is the truthful…
A song of a nation
“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun wrote this in 1704, and…
The Human Void
I wrote “The Human Void” because I wanted to explore a terrifying question: If humanity was given a second chance, would we actually deserve it?…
Monday Brief – DEDEMBER 22ed
A weekly digest – part serious, part not – in partnership with The Sofia Globe The week began early. Unreasonably early. The sort of early…
Levski’s Boots – If Levski had boots
You can also grab the PDF 27 December, 1872 (Old Style) Kakrina Village, Sanjak of Tarnovo, Danube Vilayet, Ottoman Empire Levski’s boots hit the ground…
The Tripe of Black Friday
Every year, Pavlina and I take a break the day after Thanksgiving and drive away to a secluded mountain retreat. The first year we did…
From Podcast to Print – The Long Road to the First Bulgarian Empire
Much like with the Bulgarian History Podcast itself, I began working on my first book because I felt it should exist. My career goal was…
Monday Brief – Dedember 15th
A weekly digest – part serious, part not – in partnership with The Sofia Globe The beauty of living in Plovdiv versus Sweden is the…
From the Moon to Mars
This is speculative fiction. The Lunix Station doesn’t exist—yet. But the physics of photosynthetic memory, coherent systems folding cause into effect, and consciousness as thermodynamic…
The Grand Illusion: How Brussels Became a Museum and Why Bulgaria Might Be the Future
The Greeks had a word for it: hubris – the belief that mortals could achieve what only gods should attempt. In Brussels, where the towers…
Between Google, Bulgaria, Frustrations, and Love
Between Google, Bulgaria, Frustrations, and Love (A Historically Accurate Account of My Descent Into Digital Madness) Historians, centuries from now, will study the early 21st…