Rose/House — Arkady Martine
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY - STARRED REVIEW - “Martine’s soaring, crystalline prose evokes Shirley Jackson’s Hill House if designed by Frank Gehry. She builds a twisted cathedral of story and fills every inch with equal parts beauty and a creeping, inescapable sense of wrongness. Readers will be floored.”
The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
An appreciation for (technical) architecture
Posted on Saturday 28 Mar 2026. 995 words, 14 links. By Matt Webb.
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…
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.
Playbooks — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language defines 253 methods for constructing beautiful and practical designs at every scale, from cities to rooms.
Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023
The Alchemy Lecture 2023
New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal
William Jenkins's 1975 exhibition rewrote the rules of landscape photography. Does it have the same impact today?
Alexis King’s Blog
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.
DeepSeek
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
The Story Behind our Brand Illustration
Our brand illustration shows three layers: the foundation being built, the valley we're stuck in, and the world waiting above. Here's what it all means.
Lily Seika Jones
Illustration for the 2025 edition of ‘The Last Unicorn’ by Peter S. Beagle, published with The Folio Society.
The Garden
Everything is connected. The master collection of all links collected across all collections, and a pretty decent snapshot of my brain
Take back the web. Make it weird again - soulcruzer
Sunset meets its Equinox | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism - Aaron Ross Powell
Technorealists, the silent majority? - open self
Skyreader Vision - Skyreader Dev Log
Road to a book lexicon (Part 2) - Nick The Sick