Dream Machine

Hello! Twitter loves to dunk on Silicon Valley. It goes especially crazy when tech companies "invent" something that already exists – whether that thing is...

Hello! I'm writing from a shady patch of Fort Greene Park, where the city has entered those breezy, not-too-humid first weeks of summer. I have Leo Marx's...

Hello! Did you read Taylor Lorenz on the "Tea Industrial Complex" last week? She did a great job picking apart a bizarre feud between makeup YouTubers as an...

Hi folks, Took a week off last week. If you noticed, sorry! The last newsletter was about the ways we pay for everything with our attention. This one is...

Hi friends, For those of you who live in New York City: do you remember taking the subway before it was blanketed with startup ads? Can you recall the moment...

Hello! I was lucky enough to spend a week in Barcelona recently, presenting a workshop called "How to Use the Internet Mindfully" with Willa Köerner of The...

Hudson Yards officially opened last week, and the takes are flying. Michael Kimmelman did an interactive smackdown for the NYT. The Real Deal looked into the...

Hey! This is the first edition of Dream Machine, a newsletter about politics, networks, and space. You can subscribe here if you haven't already. This week...