A URL is a radical act… I love these presentation notes on museums, the cultural sector and the web. Lots to mull over:

Beautiful and poetic:

Love this surprisingly insightful and useful theory of “step-by-step-ism” from Venkat:

In particular:

Good reminder and guiding principle if you’re writing a business book. What people want isn’t the same as what they enjoy:

Mmm. Gotta spend some time diving into this idea:

Some nice reflections on working at Github - I especially love this meditation on working on a big project that got cancelled:

Interestingly - print on demand only unlocks the first layer of value creation (more people making books), but there’s still PLENTY of room for the second layer of value creation (services on top of POD that make books as a service)…

What a lovely meditation on spreadsheets:

And:

And:

Libraries and the future of social infrastructure…

Thinking about the role of libraries in the future of social media…

Found this paper from 2006! “In the new digital libraries, users are not only consumers but also producers of information”

Why do learning and play seem locked in opposition sometimes? When it’s through play that we do our best learning…

Lonliness is a real threat.

This kind of insight is validated by this long Harvard study. In particular, it’s not just that relationships matter - but the quality of relationships in midlife…

One way out is to strengthen our trust in institutions and communal care. Not to give people support but to ask them for support:

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Love this collaborative reading experiment! Printed out essays! Spiral designs! Co-reading!

Mmm. This Sane app looks pretty interesting. Graph/table/grid view of a set of texts. Has hints of a syllabus? Hints of arena? Hints of Electric Tables? Something interesting emerging here

Lovely little meditation and exploration on custom workflows, software and tools to enable high level research:

Powerful stuff from Johanna Lewengard:

Shitposting and memes as essential digital infrastructure. Very interested in Jonathan’s new startup Antimatter that creates learning experiences through memes…

The connection between walking and attention….

I talked about questions as scaffolding here, and I like this idea of a learning question:

Ooh - live cursor comments?! Might have to install this on my blog……

“Make the web respire to natural rhythms”

“A blog is always good enough” - lovely

What a lovely project:

But most especially because it’s about close reading - about using the internet to lean into a specific work / author / niche / community. Is there a word for this kind of close attention, because sometimes the internet is amazing at this (and other times, not so much)…..