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Backrooms

1. The backrooms with their yellowing wallpaper and flickering lights are half place half feeling, a sense of the nauseatingly infinite made visible. We get lost in similar places — digital worlds, bureaucratic institutions, our heads — and though we may feel the emptiness of doing so, we may, like deranged zoo

The hard, clean questions

1. “A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?” 2. Someone once asked me: are you afraid of success? I thought it was

The Go Brrr Effect

1. A meme from a few years back has a distressed econ scholar telling the Fed chairman why we can’t just print money to fix an economic downturn. Haha money printer go brrr, he replies. 2. People talking is a good thing. Under most conditions, it means people'

Sunspot

Gloomberg Tech What's next for Sunspot? Sources say WiFi, photos May 1st, 2028 Where were you when you first heard "the Song"? Thankfully, not everyone remembers, thanks to what's now a household name: Sunspot. For those who kept the memories, the weeks afterward were

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Backrooms

The hard, clean questions

The Go Brrr Effect

Sunspot