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Notes on a Smaller, Better Internet
Personal sites, slow newsletters, forums with forty members and no algorithm. The web that was supposed to be obsolete is quietly outliving the one that replaced it.
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Essays and arguments for a more considered world.
Stories filed under this topic
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A Calendar of Leaves
Green, gold, amber, rust: the year does not turn by months but by pigments. On phenology, the science of noticing, and why it needs amateurs again.
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The Slow Season
Resorts empty, rates fall, the sea keeps its appointments. In defence of travelling to beautiful places at exactly the wrong time.
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House Style: How Society Sets a Story
Typography, hierarchy, quotations and lists — a working tour of the editorial furniture this publication uses to make long reading feel short.