David Pennington

Instantaneous access to everything obviously comes at a cost. The cost being that we all behave like demented Roman emperors, at once bored and deranged, summoning whatever we want at any time.

Idea: Expiring Email Addresses/ Expiring Email Credibility

It used to be a lot easier to change your email address. Open one account, close off or abandon another. Today, with the GSuite/ Workspace that ties your entire life together, it is just about impossible to change your address.

• Your email is tied to your calendar, cloud storage, even your

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AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards

"The Chinese say you need three things for paintings: the hand, the eye and the heart,” says the painter David Hockney. “I think that remark is very, very good. Two won’t do. A good eye and heart is not enough, neither is a good hand and eye.”

I now do drawings with no specific purpose to see what comes out. A blank sheet can be anything.

I should just write down and publish all of the best ideas I’ve ever had, as quickly and casually as I can, in succession.

Or what about a calendar that was simply, as one reader imagined, oriented around protecting time, instead of filling it? What would an un-calendar be?