Ellen Murphy

Many things in modernity are brain dead, but I can’t think of anything worse than the short form dystopias of TikTok and Instagram. They’re materially making people dumber, breeding addict behavior (particularly in the young) and ultimately ruining the lives of normies. It’s depressing to think about the countless kids who might have started garage... See more

Now, the spark file itself is not all that unusual: that's why Moleskins or Evernote are so useful to so many people. But the key habit that I've tried to cultivate is this: every three or four months, I go back and re-read the entire spark file. And it's not an inconsequential document: it's almost fifty pages of hunches at this point, the length... See more

Dow makes materials for things like electric cars and medical devices, which means if you’ve ever charged your car or had surgery... congrats, you might be a Dow customer.

The year is 2024. There are 8 billion people on Earth. We live with the world at our fingertips. We cling to a pocket-sized portal that promises dreams of escape, but leaves us feeling empty.