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NEW ESSAY FEATURED IN THE JOURNAL KOSMOS

Spring 2025 · "The Fractured Fractal: Meaning Making in the Psychedelic Multiverse" appears in the latest issue of Kosmos. As described by the editors, "This expansive essay explores the multiverse as both scientific theory and cultural metaphor, weaving together threads from quantum mechanics, psychedelic neuroscience, religious cosmology, and pop culture. Pick argues that the multiverse—a model of infinite, interconnected realities—mirrors the fragmented yet richly pluralistic nature of modern consciousness in the age of digital hyperconnectivity."

A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA?

Winter 2024 · It perhaps goes without saying that the Twitter dumpster fire began smoldering at least as far back as 2022, even before the unfortunate name change, and as Constellation Records has so succinctly put it, is now clearly in the wrong hands.

Fortunately there appear to be new horizons, especially with the rise of Bluesky, which uses an open source, decentralized, protocol-based framework intended to “usher in a brighter future for social media, one that gives users more power over their experience,” as Vox explains.

🦋 I’ve migrated to #BlueskySocial (with help from this extension) >> find me there!

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

Spring 2022 · As the recent resurgence in psychedelic science and research continues to catalyze cultural change, I’m honored to have played a direct role in the creation and launch of the innovative new Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Certificate program and Center for Psychedelic Studies at Naropa University. Not bad for a day job.

"As it looks toward the future, Naropa aims to become a force that will harmoniously connect the demands of the modern psychedelic industry with ancient wisdom."
— Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

IT'S A WONDERFUL APOCALYPSE?

Spring 2020 · Perhaps perversely, in response to the doomscrolling days of our current global pandemic reality, I've made my first published story available online. "Remember the Alamo" first appeared in Adbusters Magazine, the venerable and long-running counterculture publication. Perhaps it's also pretty much the perfect time to listen to this episode of the Mixtapology podcast series: It's a Wonderful Apocalypse‬.

SOME WRITING ADVISE

Winter 2019 · "If you wanna write a novel, you’re going to have to BEND REALITY TO YOUR WILL so you can write a novel. Same with a comic, or a game, or whatfuckingever it shall be."

Yep, as my recent experience working on a book project confirms, that checks out. Some irreverent and illuminating writing advise from Chuck Wendig. #RecommendedReading

TWO STORIES AVAILABLE ONLINE IN FULL

Winter 2018 · Two short stories first published in print can now be read online. "A Survey of Minor Disfigurements" appeared in the inaugural issue of Tahoma Literary Review, summer 2014. "The Acquisitions Department" appeared in Issue 14 of the literary journal Epiphany. Both are now available online in full for the first time. Enjoy!

NEW FICTION IN THE BUDDHIST JOURNAL THE ARROW

Spring 2018 · This new short story was first published online last summer in The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture, and Politics. "The Tale of Stormtamer" is an imagined jãtaka—my modern, speculative take on an ancient Buddhist literary form. The story is now featured in The Arrow's new digital special issue, Dharma, Degrowth, and Climate Change, which includes a short commentary by scholar Holly Gayley.

"All of my work is directed against those who are bent, through stupidity or design, on blowing up the planet."

—William S. Burroughs
1965 Paris Review Interview