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Permanent Triage

Last month I was sitting next to a lake with a college friend while the sun set. He's in grad school for biology, and he was telling me about studying…

Sep 12, 2019 •

August 2019

The museum of seasonal change

Hi friends, Last time I mentioned I was reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. I'm still thinking about it on vacation on the West Coast. Like…

Aug 22, 2019 •

Learning Trails

Hello! I’ve been thinking lately about the ways that people externalize their learning. This isn’t something that usually preoccupies me too much. I…

Aug 1, 2019 •

July 2019

Mortgaged Lives

Hi, sorry for the recent radio silence! I took a couple weeks off for life admin. I also moved this newsletter over to Substack for ease of use. You…

Jul 17, 2019 •

June 2019

Congratulations, you invented a horse

On making fun of Silicon Valley

Jun 20, 2019 •

The Garden in the Machine

Hello! I’m writing from a shady patch of Fort Greene Park, where the city has entered those breezy, not-too-humid first weeks of summer. I have Leo…

Jun 6, 2019 •

May 2019

Hello! Did you read Taylor Lorenz on the “Tea Industrial Complex” last week? She did a great job picking apart a bizarre feud between makeup YouTubers…

May 22, 2019 •

The new transcendentalisms

Hi folks, The last newsletter was about the ways we pay for everything with our attention. This one is about freemasons and transcendentalists and P.T…

May 9, 2019 •

April 2019

Surviving the attention economy

For those of you who live in New York City: do you remember taking the subway before it was blanketed with startup ads? Can you recall the moment when…

Apr 18, 2019 •

Barcelona and the limits of urban design

I was lucky enough to spend a week in Barcelona recently, presenting a workshop called “How to Use the Internet Mindfully” with Willa Köerner of The…

Apr 3, 2019 •

March 2019

What comes after Hudson Yards?

Looking for solidarity in the creative class

Mar 20, 2019 •

February 2019

Who gets to compute the city?

Hey! This is the first edition of Dream Machine, a newsletter about politics, networks, and space. You can subscribe here if you haven’t already. This…

Feb 15, 2019 •

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