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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 …
Leo
Sep 12, 2019
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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 Odell…
Leo
Aug 22, 2019
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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 ha…
Leo
Aug 1, 2019
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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 sh…
Leo
Jul 17, 2019
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Congratulations, you invented a horse
On making fun of Silicon Valley
Leo
Jun 20, 2019
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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 Mar…
Leo
Jun 6, 2019
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Poisonous tea
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 …
Leo
May 22, 2019
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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.…
Leo
May 9, 2019
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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 …
Leo
Apr 18, 2019
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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 Cr…
Leo
Apr 3, 2019
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What comes after Hudson Yards?
Looking for solidarity in the creative class
Leo
Mar 20, 2019
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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 …
Leo
Feb 15, 2019
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