Be Kind to Your Local NPCs
They are fighting the same battle as you
Culture
Kneeling Bus.
Notes from the collision of meatspace and the internet.
Recent essays
27 of 27Lo-Fi Beats for Studying
How to push more through the human attention bottleneck
Outsider Trading
Prediction markets don't reflect reality, they create it
Content Is the New Dirt
You're not obsolete, you're just relegated to the background.
Tastecore and the Enclosure of the Commons
What changed in 2021?
Situationgooning
We don't want to log off, we want to watch as many screens as possible at once
Remembering Some Guys
Computers will never beat humans at pointlessness
Sit Down and Be Sorted
In the future everyone will occupy their own personal status tier
The Last People Before the Internet
Revisiting the AOL Instant Messenger era
Anti-Yuppies & Abundance
Housing is unaffordable for the same reason that gambling is everywhere
Haunt You Down
This Halloween, learn to perceive the void
Crying in the Casino
Prediction markets as the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems
Rat Information Portal
Reflections on what belongs in public, what doesn't, and who decides
Foreground Noise
High stakes imagery in an unstable world
Brave Men Run (In My Family)
Cracker Barrel, Moneyball, and sacrificing fun in order to save it
Slop as a Way of Life
AI slop is just the culmination of how humans have been using the internet for years
Here Comes a Regular
Taste is obsolete & gatekeeping is code for what the internet took from us
Channel Surfing
We won't need to see ads once they're implicit in everything
The Post-Work City
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet
Microdosing Life
Books are a vibe whether we read them or not
The Difference that Makes a Difference
Information is eating itself
The Mall and Antarctica
How modernist architecture is like Jurassic Park
How to Win at Gambling and in Life
When everything is a prediction market, anyone can shave points
In Praise of Slow Motion
As technology evolves, the journey and the destination have converged
Falling Asleep with the TV On
You can try to log off but the slop will follow you
Ghost Exits
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of platforms
The Amazonification of Public Space
Hanging out is a luxury good