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.

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.

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

Atmospheric Computer

A Dunbar-bounded cooperative for creative-computing practitioners on the AT Protocol Atmosphere. Member-owned PDS hosting, lexicon work, and AI affordances designed by members.

Sherry Jiang is in sf ✈️ on Twitter / X

we locked in the tracks for @aiDotEngineer singapore (https://t.co/yBBooNCij7) - tag amazing speakers you'd want to see on stage in the design track :)🎨 designthis is one of the most unique things about this conference - a dedicated track on the human interaction layer.… pic.twitter.com/zVRoNhIcSv— Sherry Jiang is in sf ✈️ (@SherryYanJiang) March 15, 2026

Visionary lays into the web

Ted Nelson is a visionary who is credited with coining the term hypertext, but he is highly critical of what the internet has become.