What I keep noticing

Coffee is a ritual for coordinating a body with a morning. A library is a protocol for coordinating a town with its own memory. Animal Crossing is a gift economy with better graphics than most gift economies.

A mesh network is a neighborhood deciding it can be its own utility. Even LaCroix— especially LaCroix—is a story about how desire gets manufactured, distributed, and shelved.

We live in a moment of functionally infinite resources and painfully finite coordination. The tools are everywhere; the agreements are scarce. So that is the beat this publication covers.

Some weeks that looks like a deep case study: how a town builds its own wireless network, what a local currency actually changes. Some weeks it is anthropology: a close reading of Roblox or Tumblr as coordination machines wearing entertainment costumes.

Some weeks it is utility: how to prompt, how to automate, how to calendar, which kettle. And some weeks it is the body, because you are the first system you coordinate: walks, food, movement, the substances we use to change the channel.