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On atmospheric generatives…

How can we build moats on an open network? How can we make money when all the data's free? Here, I sketch some ideas for new generatives — contextualization, fluidity, aggregation, and relationality —…

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more scrap more email-y

another scrappier draft for the fans

here ya go :)

scraps as emails

Atmospheric Publishing Workshop

On browsing bookstores well…

Getting the most out of bookstore browsing by picking the right stores, scanning the right sections, embracing place-ness and exploring the adjacent possible

Prompts for Posts!

Experimental canvas collecting 17 writing prompts, loosely categorized — comment with any posts you write based on these!

looseleaf on standard.site :)

AT Protocol builder manifesto - WIP, comments wanted!

working title: "Why AT Protocol Will Win: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere"

let's publish looseleafs!

publishing with Leaflet, to the atmosphere, no publication needed — great for standalone posts and public documents you want to share!

Hyperlink's Learning Library

Favorite books on {collaborative} learning, {radical} education, and {creative} pedagogy, from Hyperlink Academy.

Summer of Pub Retrospective!

Reflections on our summer blog club, with thoughts on how we could improve future blog clubs…and ideas for better collaborative publishing on Leaflet!

Highlights from a summer of social blogging

Finishing up a slow but satisfying summer blog club, with a few highlights from participating publication pioneers!

On fun simple social building blocks…

Replying to Jared's thoughts on decomposing social media experiences into building blocks (identities, data, interfaces) with some building blocks I'd like to explore in Leaflet!

Powerhouse Arts

Cavernous creative catacombs; catalyst of crafts and cutting-edge

Presenting a collection of blogging prompts

Inspiration to catalyze your blog energy, in the form of seventeen creative prompts!

On three ideas for speculative shops…

Thinking about three experimental store concepts I'd like to try, including a bookstore in a fridge, an experiential lemonade stand, and a roving consignment shop.

On a snapshot from the Morgan Library…

Exploring and annotating a list of (very old; rich with intrigue) book titles jotted down on a library visit, ten years later.

Leaflet blog club: list of participants

Here's who's blogging so far…reach out to be added to the list!

Ennis Playground

A serendipitous spot for picnics and play; babies and basketball

On publishing and the doc web…

A thread of thoughts on websites, documents, metaphors of post and page, and the aliveness of the web.

Welcome to the Gowanus Review!

A hyperlocal pop-up review blog, sharing South Gowanus gems as I explore the neighborhood. If you're in Brooklyn: join me!

On the ultimate social recommendation engine…

Ideas for making super intensive bespoke social recs, for one single user at a time.

On getting weird with Wikipedia…

Exploring some favorite aspects of Wikipedia, and speculative project ideas for putting them to use.

Welcome to Summer of Pub

Introducing a summer publishing club on Leaflet + Bluesky!

On good learning tech…

Thinking about how we talk about technologies for learning, with an initial list of tools that enable learning in meaningful ways.

On keeping things scrappy…

Or, welcome to Scraps! — a new publication for miscellaneous long(-ish)form, with a focus on being unfocused, but also on writing about things I love and wonder about and want to share.

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