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Anthropologist-designer writing about knowledge work, cognition, and the digital garden form. One of the original 'digital gardeners'.

A long-running, deeply-tended personal site. The patron saint of deep esoteric essays and one of the OGs.

A practice philosopher of finitude. A self-help guy who's so useful he doesn't belong in the category.

Creating more statistical power from "North America's prophetic prognosticators". A website that tells us if our furry friends are seeing their shadows all across NA.

Someone who manages to be technically gifted, interested, and interesting. A great example of a website made by a maker.

"A digital platform for opinion collection, to facilitate large-scale conversations and consensus building" used by vTaiwan -- an experiment in upgrading democracy for the 21st century.

Why our information environment looks the way it does, and what could replace it.

The empirical scaffolding behind cliodynamics. A wildly ambitious project.

A very weird social networking app. Apparently highly resistant to enshitification.

An org dedicated to making us all into better ancestors by fostering long-term thinking.

For info-hoarders and over-highlighters who want to keep track of their favorite ideas and phrases from what they've read.

Allows users to revisit more than 1 trillion old web pages. Arguably the most complete record of the web in existence.

On the tradeoff between high-variance creative work and dependable output.

A list of impossibly-fast historical projects. Re-reading this changes what you think is possible.

Long, occasionally over-confident, but the kind of essay you find yourself quoting months later.

Brings me back to the golden age of browser games. This Neal guy is seriously creative. And fun.

A fun sci-fi adven... I mean an article about football.

Just a list of projects that Google started or bought, and then killed.

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