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My favorite projects of 2023
I saw someone post on Bluesky asking people to bring to Bluesky the tradition of posting threads containing...
Experiencing: “Flowers” Premiere
Last night, we had the premiere for Flowers, the documentary series I’ve been working on for a year...
Any minute now
We should be hitting the annual peak of people searching for tryptophan any minute now.
Experiencing: Pink’s Summer Carnival
On Thursday, Claire and I went to see Pink’s Summer Carnival concert at Sofi. I’m not the biggest...
Work: Flowers, a documentary series celebrating Black creativity
I’ve spent the past year working on this project, but it would be more accurate to say I’ve...
Reading: Taylor Lorenz’s “Extremely Online”
As I was finishing up Ben Smith’s Traffic, I messaged Taylor Lorenz that finishing Ben’s book had made...
Experiencing: Art Laboe Connection
It’s the end of a very long week in what has been a very long month during a...
Fresh Start
I lost my last website, which was less one site and really 20 years of blog posts from...
Meta-Irony and Gen Z
An explanation of meta-irony and why it's a standard mode of discourse for the digitally native Gen Z.
Liminal Spaces may be the most 2020 of all trends
A modern media phenomenon is a reminder of the purgatory of the pandemic.
Books
- Earnestp finished reading Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken January 18, 2025Earnestp finished reading Ultra-Processed People
- Earnestp started reading Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken January 6, 2025Earnestp started reading Ultra-Processed People
- Earnestp wants to read Generations by Neil Strauss January 6, 2025Earnestp wants to read Generations
- Earnestp wants to read Generation X by Douglas Coupland January 6, 2025Earnestp wants to read Generation X
- Earnestp finished reading The kill order by James Dashner January 6, 2025Earnestp finished reading The kill order
- Review of "The kill order" (3 stars): Serviceable prequel January 6, 2025None
- Earnestp finished reading Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz September 22, 2024Earnestp finished reading Extremely Online
- Review of "Traffic" (5 stars): Great telling of the evolution of the commercial Internet September 9, 2023