Baratunde Thurston | Writer, Host, and Speaker

Hi, I'm David Perell.

I write, host a podcast, and run a writing school called Write of Passage.

Nadia Eghbal, Re: Writing Hypertext

My digichat with @nayafia---an essential writer (*imho*) of texts, notes and wonderful roundups.

Welcome to Understory

Hey there, I'm Brooke, a composer-turned-programmer living in beautiful, rainy Vancouver. This is my digital garden — notes in various stages of completeness…

The World Doesn’t Exist: William Gibson, William Blake, and Navigating an Algorithmic Hall of Mirrors | ODDCRITIC

Scrolling the TL revealed distorted realities, shaped by algorithms and biases.

jeremy.herve.bzh/skypress

A calm place to write long-form, and publish it to the open social web.

My website is a shifting house ... | Laurel Schwulst

This is an adapted mirror of an essay which was originally commissioned and published for The Creative Independent ↗ on May 21, 2018.Since publishing, this essay has become required reading in many design syllabi worldwide and has been republished and translated into multiple languages.

SkyPress: a writing studio for the open social web

A standalone, long-form writing studio for the AT Protocol. Write in blocks and publish to the open social web, under your own account.

Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh

Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.

A Text Renaissance

There is a renaissance underway in online text as a medium. The Four Horsemen of this emerging Textopia are: Roam , a hypertext publishing platform best…

Home - DWeb for Creators - Gray Area

DWeb for Creators is an online course that empowers artists, designers, archivists, gallerists, curators, and others with the knowledge and tools necessary for exploring the decentralized web. Participants in this course engage with technologies like blockchain and mesh networks; examine case studies in curation, publishing, data sovereignty, and community building; and apply decolonial approaches to world building as they envision the future of DWeb technologies.

Annie Dillard Official Website

My husband Bob (Robert Richardson) is the biographer of Thoreau, Emerson, and William James.    He doesn't write what Sontag called "pathographies."    When Contemporary Authors needed an update in its account of me, he wanted to write it, and did.  Either the agent or the editors there gagged on all this praise and sent it back. 

The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet

How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating overnight web-design clichés.

DeepSeek

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

Cognitive Debt and ChatGPT

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

LinkED - Cartographie de l'extrême droite française

LinkED - Cartographie interactive de l'extrême droite française