Hearthless: How Streaming Stole Our Shared Fires
How the shift from scheduled broadcasts to on-demand streaming changed the way we gather around our stories.
Probing emerging technology by building with it.
Experiments and patterns from the edge of technology and culture — shared in public as I find them.
Recent Writing
The Global Derealization
On how experiencing the world through screens during a pandemic creates a collective sense of unreality.
Weeknotes 2534 - Eight Signals and a Third Slip
I went to the conference that was supposed to force the ship. It didn't. Tonight I named the pattern and shrunk the first ship.
Weeknotes 2533 - Thirty-Three Sparks and a Plane Ticket
I generated 33 ideas this week and shipped zero creative works. Tomorrow I fly to a conference. Maybe that's the forcing function I need.
Weeknotes 2532 - The Sunday Sprint
I shipped more in a two-and-a-half-hour Sunday evening sprint than I did in most full workdays this week. I'm not sure what to do with that information.
Who's Behind The Board
David Nuñez probes emerging technology by building with it — small experiments at the edge of technology and culture. By day he's Director, Metadata and Digital Platforms at Baker Library, Harvard Business School, where he's helping the library figure out AI. Previously Director of Technology at the MIT Museum, and an MIT Media Lab grad studying human-robot interaction.
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