Notes & essays
Essays on technology, work, culture, and the peculiar ways the world works.
The Current Token Economics Will Not Last
We Still Need More Construction Jobs
The People Who Keep Time
Why We Still Need the Wrong Map
The Lost Art of the Protest Song
The City Beneath the City
Knowledge Work in a Post-Knowledge Era
On the Strange Economics of the Hotel Breakfast Buffet
Trying to Identify the Next Apple
Why We Can't Build Big Things Anymore
Church Is the Last Intergenerational Space Left
AI Is Changing the Economics of Serving Small Businesses
When a City Becomes Too Successful
The Afterlife of a Colour
The Absurdity of Return to Office
Who Gets to Name a Storm?
What Each Era of Software Has Taught Us
What Baby Can Still Teach Us
The First Computer Was a Job Title
The Useful Life of a Dead Language
The Strange Career of the Eel
History Will Not Judge the Boomers Kindly
Why a Pub Needs a Name
The Strange History of Spanking Roger
The World Before “Fresh”
The Quiet Politics of the Shipping Forecast
Building a New Jerusalem