Technopoly by Neil Postman
May 26, 2025
I don’t know what took me so long to get around to reading Neil Postman’s work, but here we are. Postman’s penultimate book, Technopoly, is almost
But does it yearn?
May 17, 2025
Writing that stops me in my tracks tends to come in two flavors. The first is an intensely aesthetic experience, the prose itself being almost
Jia Tolentino captures the vibe
May 15, 2025
It feels like an impossible task to describe the vibe of 2025. Gesturing broadly became a thing because how can you possibly sum up what’s
What did we trade for a frictionless life?
April 25, 2025
“Why I quit ____” is not a new genre, but its staying power is telling. In the early 2010s, when techno-optimism ran high and we were only just
The Bureau of Nutrition and Home Economics
April 23, 2025
This has me all kinds of nostalgic. For NOEMA, John Last describes a government agency whose sole function was to find new ways to live a better
I’m blogging again
April 23, 2025
I’ve decided it’s time to start (link) blogging again, though I reserve the right to go on the occasional rant. This is mostly (if not entirely) for