30-Degree Shift
Reality is a mass of reasons; I’m just here to map the gravity. 30-Degree Shift is a weekly publication of essays exploring the structural irony of the world through a neurodivergent lens. Whether it’s special relativity, the craft of fiction, or the sensory weight of a blue-buttercream cake, I’m looking for how light bends around our baggage.
TL;DR - My brain is a messy equation and I’m trying to solve it on the chalkboard in front of class.
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30-Degree Shift is a weekly column by William T. Torgerson
Love Bugs
The love bugs are everywhere, coating surfaces like paint overspray – harmless and annoying.
Easier to Remove the Option
I have one tick. I think it’s a tick.
Commit!
It is a tick.
On Receiving a Package
Receiving a package is so much more powerful that it used to be. From junk mail to drunken purchases, we truly live in the best time of history.
A Convenient Theory of History
We assume the grand and mysterious structures of the ancient world to have been constructed for equally grand ambitions: religion, astronomy, legacy, the afterlife, what have you.
But isn’t the truth obvious?