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Artefact 261
May 27, 2026
Attention please Mr Stephen P. Anderson, fellow Cardstock wrangler, writes a mean newsletter. They are always full to the brim with things. This was his...
Artefact 260
May 22, 2026
A machine for walking I have rented a machine to do my walking for me. I can walk, of course, and choose to do so often. Sometimes I walk because my work...
Artefact 259
April 26, 2026
A brief bonus newsletter on apple varieties, and their similarities to technology communities.
Artefact 258
April 23, 2026
Estates of the Nation Today I’m wanted to talk about two estates. One is the housing estate where we live. The other is an industrial estate where I ended...
Artefact 257
February 1, 2026
The future/present/past of design It has been a wonderful start to the year, but as I said on the first STEPS Collective of the year on Friday, I can’t...
Artefact 256
January 2, 2026
The Creative Quartet On the 7th June 2012, the first pack of Artefact Cards was sold from a freshly-minted Shopify site, built by someone who only vaguely...
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,...
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