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 …

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…

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…

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…

Twitter loves to dunk on Silicon Valley. It goes especially crazy when tech companies “invent” something that already exists – whether that thing is go…

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…

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 …

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.…

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 …

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…

Hudson Yards officially opened last week, and the takes are flying. Michael Kimmelman did an interactive smackdown for the NYT. The Real Deal looked in…

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 …