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All essays by David Crush — U.S. politics, professional wrestling, Christianity and theology, software engineering, AI, and neurodivergent life.

Editorial cartoon: a worn Cast Member ID badge hangs on a wall hook beside eleven service-star pins and tally marks counting eleven years; below, a cardboard box holds packed desk belongings including a mug reading Be Kind to Every Mind, unless it needs accommodations, while an office door stands ajar on a theme-park skyline at dusk.

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Eleven Years a Cast Member

A series about eleven years inside Disney technology: autistic burnout and denied accommodations, leadership that optimized for optics over results, and what it costs to be relied on while your basic needs are refused.

Editorial cartoon: a speaker at a podium lights a match to a paper schedule while a wrapped gift and an empty coastal road sit unused behind him.

Politics

The Coast Was Available

By David Crush | Politics | 8 min read

Politics

The Philosopher and the Crowd

By David Crush | Politics | 5 min read

Editorial cartoon: a speaker at a podium shouts while a smaller figure bricks shut a hole torn in the speech-scroll behind him.

Politics

The Blank They Fill In

By David Crush | Politics | 8 min read

Editorial cartoon: a midnight line clutches empty retail boxes; an open box holds a slip labeled LICENSE, a PRE-ORDER sign glows orange, and a receipt is stamped REVOCABLE.

Software

Pre-Ordering Permission

By David Crush | Software | 3 min read

Wrestling

Nothing Fake About the Bill

By David Crush | Wrestling | 6 min read

Editorial cartoon: a theorist on a safe stone balcony holds a pristine city blueprint and a quill while workers shore up a cracked Capitol-like dome below; a crumpled blueprint labeled URBIT lies at his feet.

Politics

Ideas Are Easy: Curtis Yarvin Never Had to Build the Thing

By David Crush | Politics | 9 min read

Split editorial illustration: on the left a wrestler sits alone on a stool in a dark locker room; on the right the same man stands in a brightly lit ring while a crowd reaches up toward him.

Wrestling

The Other Cage: The Price of Being a Face

By David Crush | Wrestling | 11 min read

Editorial illustration of a lean masked wrestler walking toward a 1940s sedan at night, a knife catching the streetlight, while a policeman holds back an angry crowd spilling from a brick arena.

Wrestling

The Cost of Heat: The Green Shadow and the Bill for a Real Heel

By David Crush | Wrestling | 10 min read

Editorial illustration: a person at a fork in a dirt road. Left path labeled TOOL leads to a lamp-lit desk with handwritten notes. Right path labeled AVERAGE leads to a black box printing identical gray text.

Software

Filling in the Blanks: What Anxiety Taught Me About AI

By David Crush | Software | 6 min read