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The Generic City,”

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

I began to get an insider’s sense of Google’s product processes—and how serving its users was akin to a crusade.

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Some of you might have read my previous article, Against an Increasingly User Hostile Web. In it, I argue that we are replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditises people. I talk about how the modern web of surveillance, bloat and walled gardens is at odds with the open web that I love.

Parimal Satyal • Rediscovering the Small Web

Taking an Internet Walk

Spencer Chang syllabusproject.org

You could tell that the Manifest conference was a rationalist rather than an EA event because of the presence of people who were either considered unwoke (like Hanson, who told me he’d basically been canceled from EA events since a 2018 blog post in which he wrote sympathetically about the idea of redistributing sex to incels),

Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

The Web3 Movement’s Quest to Build a ‘Can’t Be Evil’ Internet

Gilad Edelman wired.com

As I lowered the beam from my headlamp, it struck me that people in SoHo go through a lot more toilet paper than those up in the Bronx.

Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time

Belong Anywhere,”