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miscellaneous personal blog; ideas & experiments to try; prompts & provocations

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On basketball and NYC and solitude and togetherness…
Jun 11, 2026
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On atmospheric generatives…
May 7, 2026
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 — for value creation in the atmosphere.
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On browsing bookstores well…
Mar 6, 2026
Getting the most out of bookstore browsing by picking the right stores, scanning the right sections, embracing place-ness and exploring the adjacent possible
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On fun simple social building blocks…
Sep 17, 2025
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!
On three ideas for speculative shops…
Aug 7, 2025
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…
Jul 31, 2025
Exploring and annotating a list of (very old; rich with intrigue) book titles jotted down on a library visit, ten years later.
On publishing and the doc web…
Jul 15, 2025
A thread of thoughts on websites, documents, metaphors of post and page, and the aliveness of the web.
On the ultimate social recommendation engine…
Jun 24, 2025
Ideas for making super intensive bespoke social recs, for one single user at a time.
On getting weird with Wikipedia…
Jun 23, 2025
Exploring some favorite aspects of Wikipedia, and speculative project ideas for putting them to use.
On good learning tech…
Jun 20, 2025
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…
Jun 16, 2025
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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