12/19/2024

The 33 Project

Good morning from upstate! We are here for a couple days with the intention to reflect on the past year and focus ourselves for the year ahead. It is beautiful and clear and fresh up here.

There’s also the most adorable reading and sleeping nook at the place we are staying…

Anyway, on to the recs for this week:

1/ For other lovers of Yellowstone, read this on its creator and his M.O.

2/ Great piece on the evolving nature of tech platforms.

Two gems:

That early optimism masked the inner machinations of Silicon Valley. After all, the idea of an online utopia is what has been marketed to us since the earliest days of the internet’s formation.

Then later…

The possibility of transformative power in digital practices and online convening spaces is still a seductive promise. Moving forward, I plan to integrate what the sociologist and author Ruha Benjamin has to say about right-sizing our relationship to the internet. “We put so much investment in being saved by these objects we create, by these technologies,” she writes in her book “Race After Technology.” But what we hold dear about the internet is not what the companies can monetize. “Our real resource,” she continues, “is ourselves.”

3/ Definitely want to check this out!

Bonus/ Every color imaginable.​

That’s it for today. Have a wonderful Thursday and see you premos this weekend! Subscribe here.