Alex Dobrenko

Anxiety, of which worry is a component, is essentially just unfocused fear.

I’ve chosen Los Angeles. I’ve fallen in love with this city. I’m surrounded by friends who have settled down here, who have chosen to build lives here, too. Now, we all know people who’ve lost everything, if we haven’t ourselves. We’re masking up to protect our lungs from burnt asbestos in the air and wondering what a future in L.A. looks like. No... See more

Sixteen years later, in 2020, Robin Sloan published a blog post called “An App Can Be a Home-Cooked Meal” which picked up on many of the same themes.

He talked about building a tiny app for his family to send short videos to one another. Only his family have access. He’s not going to turn it into a start-up. It doesn’t have any commercial or market... See more

Many cultures make use of memento mori to remind us of our mortality, the skeletons and dying flowers often represented in art or on display in the marketplace. In past centuries, it was common to sit for portraits while holding a dead rose or to carry a watch shaped like a skull in order to signify time running out. In my practice, I notice that

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