I know talking about Matt Levine’s newsletter is like talking about how much you love Tame Impala (did you know that he plays all his own instruments???), but dangit—Matt’s writing consistently great. Like this piece: Investment banking is a business of building long-term relationships. Your job, as an investment...

It’s not often that a website makes me gasp but MÖRK BORG did the trick. It’s a D’n’D-esque game which I don’t know much about but the overall weirdness of this game and the website itself is just...beautiful. Take the footnotes, for example: Remember: Make it dark, depressing, weird and cruel. But let everyone...

These are the days that I want; half in a book, half in a text file, halfway through two videogames in two separate rooms. I am plodding through ideas, running from room to room, from one thing to another. These most perfect of days always begin with a long walk in the morning for coffee—either up and over the hill...

“In vast portions of this country,” wrote Rebecca Traister back in 2019, “Roe might as well not exist already”: [For] years, I’ve listened to Democratic politicians distance themselves from abortion by calling it tragic and insisting it should be rare, instead of simply acknowledging it to be a crucial, legal...

Just as I finished moaning about not finding any good reading out there, I spotted this post by Marcin on how he fixed old photographs for his book: Somehow, through hard work of people much smarter than me, I could go deep into the photo and not only inspect its frequencies, but actually change them. Imagine being...

Lately I’m feeling rather ugh. I know why; reading has lost its luster. I find myself uninterested in almost every book, every essay, every tweet. One morning I’ll get all excited and pick up a book that someone recommends and then—bah!—the text is joyless. It doesn’t have that peculiar kick of newness to it and at...

I love Bay Curious. I’ve been listening to it for the last few weeks as I make my way down the Secret Coffee Corridor and then trek up and over Holly Park for coffee each morning. And sure, I’ve never really listened to a podcast about the city I live in or been a fan of local radio before, but Bay Curious ticks all...

Bryan Braun: A link, on the open internet, is a vote. It’s your way of saying, “this is great, and more people should know about it.” We talk about how much power the search engines have, but if you think about it, the search engines listen to us. They see what we link to, what we click, and how long we stay. At the...

Casey Johnston: Waiting in line, waiting for someone at a coffee shop, sitting on a bus—at these moments, people tend not to feel particularly in control. Phones appear automatically in your hand at such moments, and mobile games with deceptively intricate nested tasks that cascade into waves of accomplishment...

Lucas Pope has been writing intermittently about the development of his new game, Mars After Midnight: Working in 1-bit for this game has been interesting. Going in, I thought my experience with Obra Dinn would let me cruise through the visuals. Typical devlog setup, so let me describe in detail how wrong that...

Oh what a beautiful thing it is. Yesterday I snuck out of my apartment and hopped aboard BART—a series of snaking underground and above-ground lines that link the city of San Francisco to the East Bay—and it might’ve been for the first time in nearly two years. I had forgotten what a delight it is to abandon a car,...

I love this note from Craig about how working on your website is an act of stewardship: This work of line-by-line problem solving gets me out of bed some days. Do you know this feeling? The not-wanting-to-emerge-from-the-covers feeling? Every single morning of the last year may have been the most collectively...