Notes at length
Essays
Observations and longer arguments about attention, objects, technology, and the spaces between them.
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- In praise of quiet softwareThe best tools leave enough room for the work itself.
- Against the endless feedFinite pages create a stopping place—and make attention feel like our own again.
- A room needs useful cornersSmall spaces become meaningful when they make a habit possible.
- Notes without a systemA notebook can be useful before it becomes an archive.
- Objects that rememberWear, repair, and the quiet record of ordinary use.