Exploring ideas across culture, technology, society, life, and creativity in a weekly newsletter and occasional long-form essays. Studying scenes to make sense of the world.

Seeing the future through the past, and vice versa

Notes from the collision of meatspace and the internet.

Essays on temporal shifts in culture and technology

Ramblings on Art History and Old Buildings from Delhi-raised Scottish historian.

The Magazine of Strange Rules

Learning to build living software

Computer history and architecture

Deep coverage of technology, China, and US policy. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers.

Regular updates, project releases, and announcements from Yak Collective

AI infrastructure research across photonics, memory, interconnects, power, and packaging. Engineering depth translated for professionals and investors.

I've always been fascinated by contrapuntal music, in which two or more different tunes are sounded at the same time. Distinctly non-anodyne Seasian takes about the region and the world.

Tiny. Tactical. Useful.

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Unexpected takes on the modern world of work. Paul explores our obsession with work and the default path of success and tries to imagine new possibilities for how we can conceive of life, work & what matters.