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Artefact 255
November 10, 2025
Letter from a Steward, by John V Willshire, for Hardeep Kaur's social moonshot 'Age of the Steward'.
Artefact 254
November 6, 2025
Organise, don’t agonise I was reading Leah Reich’s excellent newsletter, Meets Most, this morning. And this phrase, from Anand Giridharadas’ reflections on...
Artefact 253
October 14, 2025
Well hi there. How’re you? Nice summer? </smoltolk> Let’s just crack on with it shall we…? Cognitive Debt Yes, Cognitive Debt has become a repeating theme...
Artefact 252
August 14, 2025
What’s my ideal LLM? Part three. Congratulations for getting this far. (If you’ve been sent this, part 2 is here.) Your reward, if we can call it that, is...
Artefact 251
August 12, 2025
Cogitating on Cognitive Debt And so, part 2. I’m continuing from the last newsletter with a bridge between the Latourian turn of things (“complex assemblies...
Artefact 250
August 7, 2025
Show The Thing, Change The Thing This appears to be the 250th newsletter I’ve written. Sometimes you approach a significant number and you tense up a little....
Artefact 249
May 14, 2025
Creating the space for citizenship I’m going to talk about a new card that made its way on to the board last Friday. It says “creating the space for...
Artefact 248
April 30, 2025
You’re nowt but a policy bateleur Nick wanted to know about this card. N.B. - I hope Nick wanted all that follows, rather than just wondering why I have...
Artefact 247
April 25, 2025
I only know what I think if I write it down… I was grabbed by this quote in the excellent interview Paul Graham Raven did with Cameron Tonkinwise (first part...
Artefact 246
March 1, 2025
Teachable, Wearable Futures Good morning It is a crisp and sunny morning here in Sussex, which despite everything brings a drop of optimism to start the day...
Artefact 245
January 27, 2025
A lively start to the year …and like that, January is almost over. I know, right?!! Me too!! But with that comes lots of things I could review, tell you...
Artefact 244
December 6, 2024
Bees, T-Shirts, Singing, Writing and SXSW London Hello Every time I write ‘next time on this newsletter’, it seems the world shifts and new things take...
Artefact 243
November 29, 2024
Bright Friday Dear First things first. From the Artefact Cards perspective, we have never engage with Black Friday, the now all-encompassing, pervasive...
Artefact 242
September 19, 2024
Papercamp - this Saturday in London Well hello A very short email today, with the promise of a longer one afterwards. It has been a busy summer of talks,...
Artefact 241
July 26, 2024
Look, Mum, I’m on the telly A short edition of the newsletter today, driven mostly by the fact that I received an email on Wednesday this week. It said that...
Artefact 240
May 17, 2024
Things to do, places to go Well, hello there. This edition of the newsletter is full to the brim with things you can attend, use, watch, enjoy. We might as...
Artefact 239
April 16, 2024
Back to the Future. Again. Afternoon, folks Today's newsletter is a big old collection of things. Like a month of blog posts in one place. This is fuelled by...
Artefact 238
March 25, 2024
Sending up a flare Hello there We are gathering for our next Steps Collective event tomorrow, Tuesday, 1.30pm GMT, online only via Zoom - the link is here...
Artefact 237
February 21, 2024
The sender of last resort Email discourse, mailing lists, and three projects for 2024 1. Return to sender Coming up for twenty years ago, myself and Helen...
Artefact 236
January 2, 2024
What it is, and how it is made Well hello again, and a Happy New Year And in particular, hello to new friends, hundreds of whom are now here for the first...
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