I’ve been listening to This Is How You Lose the Time War—that beautifully strange, epistolary science-fiction love story by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone—and it’s been echoing through everything I write and think about time.
On the surface, it’s about two agents—Red and Blue—fighting across timelines for competing futures. But beneath the machinery and metaphor, it’s about correspondence: how attention, patience, and love can bend time itself.
That idea—writing to time instead of fighting it—sparked a long reflection I’ve turned into an essay called “This Is How You Win the Time War.”
It’s part literary meditation, part personal reckoning, and part exploration of how we can stop treating time as an enemy and start seeing it as a companion.
You can read the full essay now on Medium.
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