An ephemeral list of articles I’d like to write about so I don’t feel like I have to keep the tab open in my browser as a reminder 😂 Maybe I’m not sure what to say about it, maybe I just need to think about it a little more, maybe it struck me and I’m not sure why, maybe I just have too many tabs open. No guarantee I’ll write about these but something about them caught my attention.
Writing + making things
- On Writing on Web
- The Ed’s Up – How to Start a Book
- On Slow Writing / When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster
- Weaving Words Like a Patchwork Quilt
- The Kitchen Tasks in Front of Me
- Trying In Public
- Exists is the enemy of good
- Woman behind a paywall
The web + online culture
- Becoming Popular on the Internet without Wanting to
- ‘Evidence Maximalism’ Is How the Internet Argues Now
- A final word on blogs before we return to our regularly scheduled programming / you can never step in the same blog twice
- Writing, Riffs & Relationships
- Ads don’t work that way
- Witnessing the death of the web as a news medium
- Decision-based evidence-making
- A Time We Never Knew
- “This is just like 1984!”
AI + technology
- AI is already better than you
- Google made an A.I. so woke it drove men mad
- Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail
- I’ve had this thought but never put it into words.
- “Your Voicemail Isn’t Working”
Community
- The Gnome Trail: An Open Secret by Anne Helen Petersen
- The friendship problem
- When connection is the cure, not the cause.
- To the reader
Design
- Is the Greige Era of Design Ending?
- Underlines Are Beautiful
- DATA LOOKS BETTER NAKED
- The Elements of Good Craft
- Has ‘Resale Value’ Ruined Interior Design?
Urbanism + policy
- Regulations are written in blood
- Access by a thousand curb cuts
- Despite living a walkable distance to a public pool, American man shows how street and urban design makes it dangerous and almost un-walkable
- The free market won’t solve our nationwide housing affordability problem
- Five climate lessons from Māori communities (that are guaranteed not to depress you)
- The work of a generation
Other