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
What Makes a Dungeon?
I rarely think of dungeons in any practical manner. Mostly it’s fantasy world kind I loot when I’m pretending to be a Tiefling Rogue. But, when I do consider what constitutes a dungeon, fluids are more common than loot.
Minimum Relative Suffering
While complete annihilation of suffering remains theoretically impossible, several laws have been discovered which outline methods to decrease relative suffering.
On Winning Monopoly
Sometimes I wonder if my choice to live out in the country is just one more revolt against Monopoly.
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?