Tag: jotter

  • On photos

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    Last year, in a bout of optimism, I bought myself an instant camera. Film has always felt like permanence to me, the same way anything written with ink and paper has always carried more weight. There’s something about translating your impressions into something solid, something you can touch — something that could outlast you, even,…

  • Speech

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    “In a perfect autocracy, the population of nobodies never speaks, all their thoughts and feeling formulated and uttered by the leader and/or his representatives.”

  • Letters Home

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    Half the time, it feels like sending signals out into space. But we’ve learned so much of the universe that way, haven’t we?

  • Not A Gamer: missed messages

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    Indie game developer Angela He’s missed messages sets you up to fail, and that’s a good thing.

  • Presence

    On days when I could stomach a future in biology, I would think of becoming a botanist.

  • Rest

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    The relentless hustle of startup culture, or the crunch of game development, or whatever synonym other tech-adjacent industries like to use for the endless grind of work, all rest on the metaphor of the worker as a single-minded machine.