Words

Essays, dispatches, newsletters, and notes on technology, creativity, and the future.

June 24, 2022 3 min read

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…

April 25, 2021 6 min read

Do you remember the way your first computer smelled?

March 26, 2021 3 min read

Thank you for all the outpouring of kind words for my newsletter last week. It was a huge catharsis to write it, and I was so touched that…

January 8, 2021 5 min read

Hello friend,

December 20, 2020 3 min read essay

This is an experimental blog post to test what it would be like to free write on my iPhone

December 18, 2020 7 min read

There's something about December that sends me into a frenzy of trying to wrap up projects as if I'm trying to make up for not being as…

December 7, 2020 17 min read

I have a confession.

November 6, 2020 5 min read

Hello friend,

November 3, 2020 12 min read

Hello friend,

October 23, 2020 9 min read

Aboard the Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5), Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 30,000 feet above the moon surface and rapidly descending. It was…