September 2025
Small and sincere communication quietly thrives. It's easy to find
and even easier to make yourself:
Write on the internet.
Find or create a
third place.
Pick up the phone.
Join niche interest groups.
Live, don't lurk.
Embrace candid culture.
Put people you care about on the calendar.
Don't play near black holes.
Meet people at farmers markets.
Learn to... See more
and even easier to make yourself:
Write on the internet.
Find or create a
third place.
Pick up the phone.
Join niche interest groups.
Live, don't lurk.
Embrace candid culture.
Put people you care about on the calendar.
Don't play near black holes.
Meet people at farmers markets.
Learn to... See more
The Cheap Web
... See moreLibrary of congress call number system as well as Dewey decimal…institutionalized, but not great bc u can’t see different genres side by side, in conversation. Poetry should talk to philosophy should talk to art history…lacking that in these library systems. Politics of a library: “separating literature fro the arts and from philosophy, social
But if you choose to give it your full attention, it can completely shift the emotional temperature of a space.
door.link Is the Music Internet's Purest Place
idea of “emotional temperature”
This line from the Ta-Nehisi Coates book, Between the World and Me: “I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
thecreativeindependent.com • Charles Broskoski on self-discovery that happens upon revisiting things you’ve accumulated over time
spanning fashion criticism, visual theory, philosophy, and magazines. They’re not meant to be consumed in one go. They’re the kind of things you sit with, revisit, and build your own archive around.
The Art Director’s Reading List
work your way through the film festival line-ups of previous years and see what catches your eye. do what we did as children and pick out a random book at the library, a title you haven’t seen before by an author whose name you don’t recognize, and let yourself be whisked away. pick up a a magazine on a form you are unfamiliar with; a biannual... See more
Ayan Artan • how to be a critic.
Zettelkasten
en.wikipedia.orgBe the one who convenes.
Everyone is tired. Everyone secretly wants someone else to ring the bell. Host the cheap thing. Name the time and end. Say, “door is soft; leave when you must.” Put crisps in a bowl. Friendship is logistics performed tenderly.
Everyone is tired. Everyone secretly wants someone else to ring the bell. Host the cheap thing. Name the time and end. Say, “door is soft; leave when you must.” Put crisps in a bowl. Friendship is logistics performed tenderly.
An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
journals as “the altars that hold my heart and head all at once”