To slow down time. Life feels longer when there’s more of it to look back on. Take more photos and you preserve more memories. The more you do it, the richer your life looks in retrospect. Here are some photos I’ve taken with my iPhone 15 Pro Max this year:
Lately, I’ve found myself captivated by analog watches. I spent a long time admiring them from afar, mostly as intricate little capsules of human ingenuity and craftsmanship—fascinating to admire, but unobtainable. I couldn’t make sense of owning one in a world where the cheapest digital watch is more accurate than the most expensive analog. My...
Well ok, of course it does—but I need to get your attention so I can hold this in front of you enthusiastically. Quick recap: Vampire Survivors is a wildly addictive, deliciously simple game released a couple of years ago that's won a small pile of awards and is now available on every major gaming platform,...
I use Obsidian the same way I use most productivity apps: simply. My email and my personal notes app have no folders. There are no tags in my task management system. If I’m not actively benefiting from a layer of complexity, I remove it from the system. In my experience, it takes at least a...
Ninn Salaün, a talented and expressive illustrator, seems to have equal skill wielding the pen as she does the proverbial brush if her ongoing short-form literary project is anything to go by: “Reports From Unknown Places is a daily project that aims to document meteorological and other natural events in various undisclosed locations since March...
I got an email this weekend from a reader that included (among other lovely things) a thought-provoking question: “If it’s a personal blog, why does the audience matter?” As I was thinking through my reply, I realized I could answer publicly and clarify something: my intention here isn’t to grow an audience. In my first...
Jason Velazquez recently wrote about the uncomfortable reality of the modern web. It’s a reminder that underneath all the fanfare about new technologies and how they’ll change our lives, a small group of companies have manoeuvred themselves into a place of unimaginable power. Nearly every platform, every app, every website, every AI model, everything that...
I had Friday off thanks to a company wellness day, and managed to convince my best friend Thomas that wellness requires cameras and companionship. With an abundance of both at our disposal, we grabbed our respective Ricoh GR IIIs (he, the classic 28mm version and I the 40mm variant) and headed downtown for the afternoon....
