Brad Barrish

Today working on a phone or laptop is associated with upper-middle-class knowledge work. In ten years, it will be a kind of low-status, blue-collar, m

I continue to believe that, for all its convenience, streaming threatens to wipe out a rewardingly inefficient, friction-filled, locked-in, ritualisti

A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.

It's not even optimistic to say we have to try, it's just necessary. To give up, to stop trying, is to accept that things can't change. As Audre Lorde

Sometimes, we need to experience a moment of mortality like this to remember our days of even drawing another breath — let alone surrounded by friends