An alternative to mainstream social media designed to make you more attuned to your life. I currently lead engineering, assist with design, and participate in the group effort that is strategy and planning. Available on web + iOS.
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River’s first residency program offers lightweight guidance and encouragement for you to do the thing you already want. After many experiments with grants, accelerators, and community development, this is one of my favorite projects to date.
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Reggie James and Eugene Angelo argue that Mars needs a creative director because shared futures require images powerful enough to organize collective action. Their conversation treats Mars less as a destination than as a creative framework for escaping internet-era apathy and reimagining life on Earth.
Alice Maz argues that agency begins when people stop waiting for permission and discover that they can act directly on the world around them. Through stories about ARPA, Xerox PARC, stoicism, and ambitious work, she sketches the conditions that allow exceptional people to pursue consequential ideas.
David Rudnick introduces Primacism, a framework for understanding conflict between digital and physical sources of cultural value. The conversation applies that distinction to type, poetry, and the status of objects created for digital space.
Virgil Abloh traces the ideas and collaborative methods behind a practice spanning architecture, fashion, music, and art. His Harvard GSD lecture frames design as a process of sampling, translation, and making ideas legible across disciplines.
Kei Kreutler considers how organizations and online communities create forms of memory that persist across time. Her FWB Fest talk asks what software can remember and how distributed groups can cultivate a living archive.
Benjamin Bratton joins Joshua Citarella to discuss artificial intelligence as a planetary condition rather than an isolated technical product. Their conversation connects AI to terraforming, geopolitics, and computation at the scale of the Earth.
Rem Koolhaas and AMO look beyond cities to examine the technological, ecological, and political transformations reshaping the countryside. The project treats rural and remote territory as an active site where alternative futures are already being built.
