making sublime

When I say “I don’t know where everyone went,” I know everyone’s out there surfing the web , of course, but it feels like it’s a different place now. When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet. The “For You” pages of the world are right, I am interested in that content, but I’m not seeing ... See more

Dear people who have tried to build their own digital gardens and failed (or are still trying but haven't succeeded yet)... What was your main blocker / what did you get stuck on? What was frustrating about the experience? What tools / platforms / things were you trying to use?

To build up “a huge archive of thinking and feeling” seems a necessary project for any artist, even without publication as the eventual goal.

But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever.

And so, at last, we can return—seriously, earnestly—to the reinvention of the humanities, and of humanistic education itself. We can return to what was always the heart of the matter—the lived experience of exi... See more

a viable strategy in many markets that are saturated by VCware or big tech: make the same thing but principled + user-supported

Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?