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Copying Badly Until One Day You Don't
We taught a generation that slow means failure. The research says slow is where the person actually gets made.
Jul 10
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Pete Trainor
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The Norwegians Figured Something Out That We Keep Getting Wrong
By not keeping score we could teach the world about joy, creativity and the damage we do when we judge too early.
Jul 6
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Pete Trainor
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The Blockbuster Is Not Failing. The Bet Is.
Supergirl is the conversation. Budget inflation, broken audience contracts, and a decade of diminishing returns are the story.
Jul 3
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Pete Trainor
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Road to Perdition: Blood, Legacy and the Long Shadow of a Perfect Adaptation
The Comic Nobody Hyped, the Film Nobody Expected, and Why Both Deserve to Be Considered Classics
Jul 3
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Pete Trainor
Fed Without Consent
The hypersexualised fantasy art flooding your feed isn’t just offensive, it’s also training the machine.
Jul 2
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Pete Trainor
June 2026
They Didn’t Hate the Film. They Hated the Woman in It.
I saw Supergirl today and it wasn’t perfect, but the backlash has almost nothing to do with the film — read on, the data makes that point uncomfortable…
Jun 27
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Pete Trainor
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Born in the Gutter, Built for Everyone: How Silicon Valley Annexed a Culture It Never Understood
…and how the medium that gave a voice to the voiceless got sold to the people who were never lost for words.
Jun 24
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Pete Trainor
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Hello Mike.
Chapter 12 “Hello Mike” (Unedited extract from “Calling All The Dreamers” 2023)
Jun 22
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Pete Trainor
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The Market Is Booming. The People Who Built It Are Not.
Creative work was already undervalued. Now there’s an excuse for it.
Jun 15
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Pete Trainor
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Getting Good Is the Hard Part.
It’s also the part that matters.
Jun 14
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Pete Trainor
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Two Publishers. One Decade. The CBR Top 100 Tells You Everything About How Comics Got Great.
The numbers behind the canon don’t lie.
Jun 8
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Pete Trainor
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The Shortcut That Goes Nowhere
How Silicon Valley is stealing a thousand hours from each of us to build a time-bomb.
Jun 4
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Pete Trainor
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