Tami Oladipo

Strategist Nick Susi has argued that big tech’s hegemonic scale is birthing new forms of countercultural expression, with users’ relocating into the web’s “dark forest” - areas hidden from algorithmic extraction.

Paying attention and listening. Looking for connections and relationships in the outside world. Searching for beauty. Seeking stories. Noticing what you find interesting, what makes you lean forward. And knowing all of this is available to use next time you sit down to work, where the raw data gets put into form.

There is no telling where that

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In Curators are the new Creators, Gaby argues that this will create opportunities for curators — increasingly, we will pay people with good taste to help us sort through the ever-growing mass of information.

The business of good taste has been well documented. There are plenty of businesses that address the question “what should I read?”; The... See more

For some, regular-maxxing equals the good feeling of getting:

• menu items named after you


• handwritten cards when staff hear you’re moving


• invitations to employees’ birthday parties


• appointments reshuffled to make room for yours


• mushroom-foraging tips


• access to staff-only backyards where you can smoke weed


• shopping before opening hours


• staying after close,

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Language is always a response to the evolving world around us – we expand it when our current vocabulary fails to capture what we’re observing, or have a particular desire for how we’d like the future to unfold. Naming is a political act as much as a poetic one.

We have a name for a system of interconnected notes and it is called Zettelkasten, an invention of Niklas Luhmann, a German sociologist known for leveraging his system to write over 70 books and publish over 500 scholarly articles over his lifetime.

Now we are not here to support you in producing at this level (but if you do, more power to you! The... See more

I like to think of collections as a way of creating meaningful containers for creative work—spaces that allow us to develop our ideas, while maximizing our chances of making unexpected connections.