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.
Words
Essays, dispatches, newsletters, and notes on technology, creativity, and the future.
The Global Derealization
On how experiencing the world through screens during a pandemic creates a collective sense of unreality.
Weeknotes 2536 - Body Keeps Losing
This was the body-basics week. LoseIt 2/7. Bedtime 1/7. C25K 0/3. The operating system meanwhile kept evolving. The pattern has a name now.
Weeknotes 2535 - The Loop Underneath
The CNI wrap-up shipped four days late. The post-mortem went one layer deeper than productive procrastination — to the energy loop that was making it inevitable.
CNI Spring 2026 - Four Bridges
A wrap-up from CNI Spring 2026 in Salt Lake City. Libraries as the bridge in AI decisions on campus, and four concrete patterns of what that bridging actually looks like in practice.
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.
on this day using obsidian bases
Snippet that mimics "On This Day" functionality using Obsidian bases.
Select All. Delete. Breathe.
I’ve accumulated a mountain of digital clutter. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of files scattered across old hard drives, floppy…