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A Meteor Fell and I Couldn't Find the Crowd A meteor boom over Boston, a real-time town square that had quietly fragmented into a hundred private instruments, and why the fastest civic response in 2026 is to build the answer instead of post it. Plus Watch Duty, a 48-hour moving model, and someone in a blueberry-muffin costume.

Jun 4

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The Card Apple Would Rather You Not Use Why digital-first wallets still mail you a piece of metal.

May 28

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The Pocket Test A field guide for naming what your phone is actually doing on a walk. Five answers, one honest question.

May 21

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Some apps want you to go outside. On the small genre of software that uses the screen as a door, not a wall.

May 14

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My calendar lied to me, and I have only myself to blame A small operational fire, followed by the four-jobs question I now ask every tool in my stack. Plus: pilot logbooks, an inaccurate-planning study from UCL, and Andy Matuschak on bending software around real life.

May 7

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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.

Aug 21

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Austin, TX: Progress & Nostalgia I'm in Austin over the 4th of July weekend to visit family. Every time I come back to Texas I have incredibly mixed feelings.

Jun 30

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100 Days and a Restart Today we launched a new MIT Museum website, and started our 100 day countdown to the opening of the Museum in its new building at Kendall.

Jun 23

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That New Computer Smell Do you remember the way your first computer smelled?

Apr 24

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Anything but NFTs So I was tempted to make this week’s newsletter about NFTs.

Mar 25

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The Grief Multiplier and Gratitude Personal reflections on loss, grief, and finding gratitude during the COVID-19 pandemic after losing a brother.

Mar 18

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Happy New Year? If you say so. I regret my jokes at the end of last year about how “it couldn’t get any worse than 2020.” At the very least, to the extent that this country is relevant to the rest of the world anymore, we have a lot of explaining to do in 2021 and beyond.

Jan 7

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Patience There's something about December that sends me into a frenzy of trying to wrap up projects...

Dec 17

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The Show Must Go On(line) Somewhere in middle of Act II of Hamilton, I think between “The Adams Administration” and “We Know,” I fell fast asleep. This was the original cast on Broadway, mind you, and I was sitting in some of the best seats in the house.

Dec 7

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Choose Your Own Adventure Exploring the branching narratives of CYOA books through data visualization and what they teach us about choice.

Nov 13