TPO#20: New Year, New Nothing

January 10, 2022

This is The Purposeful Object, a newsletter by Toronto writer Navneet Alang about the techno-modern and living the good life. It’s been dormant for some...

TPO#19: Have You Heard of These Things Called Books?

June 24, 2021

This is issue 19 of The Purposeful Object, a newsletter by Navneet Alang about living the good life amidst the miasma of the technomodern. This issue:...

TPO#18: Finding Beauty in Annoying Brown Dudes

March 28, 2021

TPO#18 This is issue 18 of The Purposeful Object, a newsletter about living the good life amidst the miasma of the technomodern. This time 'round: grudgingly...

TPO#17: The Password is Waking Up Early

February 17, 2021

TPO 17 This is the Issue 17 of The Purposeful Object, a newsletter by Navneet Alang about living the good life amidst the miasma of the techno-modern. I’ve...

TPO#16: Flowers in Ash

December 24, 2020

This is Issue 16 of The Purposeful Object, a newsletter about modernity and the good life by Navneet Alang. This issue is a little different. Rather than my...

TPO#15: Winter Looms

October 23, 2020

This is Issue 15 of The Purposeful Object, a newsletter about modernity and the good life by Navneet Alang. This issue: some thoughts about mindset; some...

TPO#14: A Happy Coinciding

August 24, 2020

This is The Purposeful Object, a newsletter about modernity and living the good life by Navneet Alang. This issue of TPO: some thoughts about... well,...

TPO#13: Are you a 3rd Wave Coffee Person?

July 27, 2020

This is The Purposeful Object, a newsletter from Navneet Alang loosely about the techno-modern present and living the good life. This issue: some thoughts on...

TPO#12: A Shrinking World

June 28, 2020

This is Issue 12 of The Purposeful Object, a newsletter by Navneet Alang that’s about… trying to live the good life when you’re a mess? Uh, that’s my new...

TPO#11: A Virus Needs a Body

May 30, 2020

Hello! And hello especially new subscribers who arrived courtesy of this piece. This is The Purposeful Object a newsletter about the technomodern and the...

TPO#10: The Days Stretch On and On...

April 6, 2020

This time in TPO: some thoughts about spending time with art during a strange era, a Netflix recommendation (and some gin), and a nerdy segue into a couple...

TPO#9: We're in Deep Now

March 28, 2020

Admin note: I realize that everything is bad and that everyone is strapped right now, but as media budgets get slashed and hiring processes get frozen,...

TPO#8: I dunno y'all

March 23, 2020

So. Here we are. One minute it seemed like we “merely” living through the mind-bending strangeness of the Trump-and-Brexit era, and now we are in the midst...

TPO#7: Cool Thoughts, Cool Music, Cool Visualizations

February 29, 2020

This round in The Purposeful Object: some thoughts about winter and facing life; music I'm probably too old for but is fun; imagining a bespoke internet; and...

TPO#6: Pho for the Soul

January 27, 2020

This week in TPO: some thoughts about pleasure and its relation to hardship or discomfort; then, a brilliant n+1 piece about how Instagram produces its...

TPO#5: New Beginnings in a Dry Month

January 12, 2020

So. It’s a new year, and with it there is the inevitable talk of renewal. If you’re rolling your eyes, I understand. There is something about resolutions —...

TPO#4: Is it Enough?

December 7, 2019

A Blurred Background I'm not sure Bokeh altogether works as a film. The 2017 feature, which stars It Follows' Maika Monroe, is ostensibly a sci-fi piece. A...

TPO#3: The Algo, Beeps and Boops, and Dry Feet

November 9, 2019

Listening (to what you thought was yours) A few weeks ago, the excellent New York Times columnist Charlie Warzel tweeted the following: It's stuck with me...

TPO#2: What Wine Goes with the Apocalypse?

October 26, 2019

The Life Philosophy in YouTube Channels Adam Ragusea's success feels delightfully old school. Ragusea is a former reporter, and is now a journalism professor...

TPO#1: Doorstops as a life philosophy, and... wait, deodorant?

October 8, 2019

I think my life would be significantly improved were I to buy a doorstop. For a series of inane reasons that involve a dehumidifier, a squeaky hinge, and...