Echolocation

Part of me feels sad that the hype machine burns out so quickly, other parts are happy that these small-scale experiments go to ground.

Good Weird Stuff

Four places to poke around when the sight of another bland-looking personal website or social network makes me want to launch my brain into low orbit.

Fade Out

“I’m feeling my way to that destination, which is years off, surely, and I just hope to manage it gracefully.”

Population: Us

I fear I am admiring the problem, thrilling to ever more accurate descriptors that tell me precisely how and why I’m locked in this unfulfilling spiral, rather than taking steps to change my behavior.

The Half-Remembered Bakery

Finding slices of myself in the flaky pastry of the Old Web.

Stumbling

“If everyone’s social media experience looked like your social media experience I think people would want to be on social media a lot more.” I’m in therapy. I mean, I’m in my house, same as every other day, but I’m looking at the particular video call window that corresponds to “being in therapy” and my … Continue reading Stumbling

Authenticity: Interintellect Salon Notes

A good thing: I’ve started wandering into more and stranger corners of the internet in the past year. Weird legacy sites documenting English heirloom potatoes. Minimalist archives of Japanese woodworking techniques. A blog in the form of a text-based game. So it doesn’t surprise me that much (except it kind of does) to have stumbled … Continue reading Authenticity: Interintellect Salon Notes