Marti Purull

I’d rather play a boring game with honest people than an exciting one with a bunch of chancers. martipurull.com/martian-though…

It happens to all of us: we find out about something or we come up with something, and it seems perfect, and it brings us much joy, and we don’t want the feeling to ever stop, so we dare not prod it. martipurull.com/martian-though…

Something happened yesterday that made me doubt my sanity. It involves guitars, melodies and the German language. I don’t think it only happens in music, though. martipurull.com/martian-though…

They are realising their best players might not want to play their game anymore, whether light- or heavy-weight. martipurull.medium.com/the-regulators…

If I told you that a secret society of ghosts are plotting to take down your government, you would be right to write me off as insane. martipurull.com/martian-though…

Anger is contagious. martipurull.com/martian-though…

A position of constant disbelief regardless of the information at hand is as much an act of belief as any. martipurull.com/martian-though…

Our lives are – among other things – the stories of us deciding, changing or accepting who we are. Identity plays an critical role from the moment we are born. martipurull.com/martian-though…

The peril that is often ignored is not that of the choice made at the expense of the choices not made but the cost of not making a choice at all. martipurull.com/martian-though…

I’m still to meet a true expert who considers himself or herself an expert, while I’m bombarded by all these experts in all these fields who have all these solutions for me. martipurull.com/martian-though…

Rants are one of the most dangerous activities we may get addicted to. martipurull.com/martian-though…

There must be a way to break out of the loop of the eternal clash. I believe there must be a way in which the old are generous enough to think of the young and the young are humble enough to think of the old. martipurull.com/martian-though…

“If a song can’t be written in twenty minutes, it ain’t worth writing,” said singer-songwriter Hank Williams. After writing more than a couple of hundred songs since, I still agree. martipurull.com/martian-though…

Our mystery sells. Don’t you dare solve it. martipurull.com/martian-though…

The prodigal son believes time stood still for everyone back home. As he reenters the scene, he expects the scene to be all about him – and it is. At least, that’s the story. martipurull.com/martian-though…

Soon enough, though, we are introduced to the idea that our freedom ends where somebody else’s begins. Santa still has to pay before leaving the toy store. martipurull.com/martian-though…

Mental atrophy is real. And if all the noise we are capable of generating as a species is good for anything, it’ll be that there is surely something for all of us. martipurull.com/martian-though…

There is some beautiful magic in their logic of moving from one to another plane of existence, like there is beautiful magic in the math that explains the atom bomb. martipurull.com/martian-though…

Listening to strangers is hard. Prejudging them is easy. martipurull.com/martian-though…

I don’t feel particularly proud of having had certain ideas, even ideas I’m extremely happy with and grateful for. I’m not proud because I don’t feel responsible for them… they just sort of came to me. martipurull.com/martian-though…