Moral Ecosystems: My Big Idea
It’s said that thinkers are either foxes and hedgehogs. The fox knows many things, and the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ever since I heard about this I’ve...
Reflections on 2023
Dream Season It is dream season at Toby's Door—December—my favorite. In the cold and the still, everything becomes clearer and more perceptible. The blue...
Subject Matter #20: American Psychology
Hi everyone, it's Toby, back with your favorite blog "Subpixel Space." I've got a new post for you, which is mostly a bunch of questions about psychology...
Reflections on 2021
Seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons. You laugh when you cry. You become another person. You think you could die...
Subject Matter 19: Beings in Network Space
This morning I woke to some kind of flute music lifting into my window from inside the alley. The notes played were in a major scale, between each simple...
Subject Matter 18: 2020 Spring Update
Approaching the solstice, filled with radiant energy and stretching my hand toward the warmth of the ever-giving sun... I've been working on a new tool with...
Subject Matter 17: Premonition
New Essay (Collab) These days, we are taking no time off from the business of surviving. But we are not only nesting, caring, late-wintering, burrowing,...
Subject Matter 16: 2020 Winter Update
Hello and a belated happy new year. Contents: 1. Business Update 2. New Writing 3. Other After I left Underdog.io last year, I worked on a bunch of different...
Subject Matter 15: 3 Cuts on Brands
Over the weekend, I put together a short video walkthrough of 3 ways that I currently think about brands: as consensus systems, as sites of conflict, and as...
Subject Matter 14: Other Internet, Online Education
A small update from Subpixel Space and Other Internet. We're currently exploring alternative education at Other Internet, our research and strategy...
Subject Matter 13: Everything Must Change
Update: Residency, New Essay, New Feelings Greetings from Berlin, where I'll be for the rest of the summer. I'm lucky to be here among friends and meeting...
Reflections on 2018
In the days leading up to the new year, I saw a lot of myth, religion, and spirituality on the twitter timeline. It seems that for you, like me, myth is on...
Subject Matter 12: Diminishing Marginal Aesthetic Value
A small update: I published a new report on Friday, which discusses how zero marginal cost distribution poses a challenge to the value of aesthetic...
Subject Matter 11: Post-Everything, Pre-Everything Else
The first half of 2018 has been full of interesting developments, and deserves commemorations. We published two essays, did a talk, worked on some soon-to-...
Reflections on 2017
The overstimulated state I’ve been experiencing lately is hard to describe in regular emotional terminology. The ones that come to mind feel weird and...
Subject Matter 10: Cults, Meaning, and Travel Log
I spent October traveling in Hong Kong, much of this time with @diversifiedbonds. We encountered a whole host of fascinating places, brilliant people, and...
Toby waxes about critique, reviews Toro Y Moi's new album
Lately the critique seems to have fallen out of favor. Then again, criticality has never been popular to begin with—someone is always on its receiving end....
Subject Matter 9: Cybernetics & Magic
Contents: the next Mondays event and a brief written exploration. Mondays: The Glass Bead Game, May 15, 2017, 6:30pm EST In which a dialectic game will be...
Subject Matter 8: On Wearing Black
On Wearing Black Sarah Perry’s recent essay, Tendrils of Messes in our Brains, explores the human perception of mess. Mess emerges from the juxtaposition of...
Subject Matter 7: Twilit Cities
Collection: Twilit Cities We are happy to present a curated collection of gifs to satisfy your brooding cyberpunk needs. These gifs were sourced from across...