

AI Made Creating Easier, & Made Being Seen Harder.
What happens to creativity when skill is no longer the barrier to entry? BY: Damien J. Branch | October 17th, 2026 | Saturday 1:40am EST I’ve been noticing something lately, and I couldn’t figure out why it bothered me so much. Then I started looking at flyers. I know. Flyers, but hear me out. We are in the middle of a flyer pandemic. Everybody suddenly has the same flyer. Different birthday, different business, different church, different podcast, different colors, same damn


I Think I Forgot How to Just Be Me...
By: Damien J. Branch | September 25th, 2026 | Friday 8:35pm EST Somewhere between building a brand and trying to make money online, I stopped sharing my life and started marketing it. It's Friday night. There's a nor'easter rolling through Long Island. The wind is beating against the house, we're supposed to get rain for the next few days, and I just spent about $300 putting food in the house so nobody has to be running around this weekend. Tonight? I cooked. Not content. Not


The Morning Everything Stopped..
My Personal Memory of September 11, 2001 By: Damien J. Branch | September 11th, 2026 | Friday 5:20am EST I was supposed to get a haircut. That's one of the strangest things I remember about September 11, 2001. Not because the haircut mattered, because it didn't. That's exactly the point, I was 20 years old, staying at my grandmother's house in South Jamaica, Queens. My family had moved out to Long Island, but life had brought me back to Grandma's house for a while. I was work



