Essays, notes and films, filed by hand since 2019. Pick a drawer.
Essay
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Culture
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The Case for Reading Slowly
In an age of skimming, the slowest readers may be the only ones who remember anything at all. Notes from three winters spent with one book.
Essay
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Cities
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What the City Remembers
Streets keep a record of everyone who has walked them. A walk through the parts of the city that refuse to forget.
Podcast
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Design
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Designing for Attention
A conversation with a type designer on notifications, quiet interfaces and why the best software gets out of the way.
Note
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Nature
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Field Notes from a Quiet Coast
Seven days, one film camera and a coastline that has never had a coffee shop. A photo essay in fog.
Essay
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Craft
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The Tools We Keep
Why the oldest tools in a workshop are rarely the best ones, and why nobody ever throws them away.
Video
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Craft
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Inside the Night Studio
A ceramicist who only works after midnight, filmed in one continuous take from first light of the kiln to the last.
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