Alex Dobrenko

These apps are styled like cutesy helpmeets, and their names — Yohana, Ohai, Milo — would be at home on a Brooklyn day care roster. Though pitched to “busy parents,” they implicitly target affluent working mothers who are struggling to manage household tasks on top of work and child care, and who might even be convinced to spend some (though not... See more

Suddenly, being on a laptop in the middle of a work day is an act worthy of someone’s attention. Maybe they’ll see the picture and notice more than just you at work - a decoration in your house, a new haircut, an alarming error in a SQL query you wrote. We’re suddenly funneling attention into the parts of our lives that we would never even journal... See more

If you aren’t trying to get real feedback from people who know you, you’re cooking without tasting.

I started my days toasting bagels, checking Instagram, scrolling Notes, answering emails & reading news...trying to situate myself in the constellation of likes, needs and urgent happenings. My kids, meanwhile, yelped and raced around me, big laughs, pink butts. All the glory that cannot be measured.

The cardboard box is a minimalist form with maximalist ambitions, an arboreal apparatus made from one of the world’s most abundant renewable resources, then filled with plastic and moved around by copious quantities of oil. It doesn’t just coordinate and control landscapes; it transforms them.