Rare words, sentences entangled and translated, prose wrought and wrangled, ridiculous rhymes.
Opening up a landscape of technical possibility and complexities of the world.
Recollections and reconceptions, spine-tingling awe-inpiring mind-expanding fruits of multifold imaginations.
Generating interesting work, synthesizing fruits of past and present, and pushing things forth out into the world.
Speculation, worldbuilding, radical thinking about our collective future.
Genre-defying brilliance, introducing me to unexpected insight and intrigue threaded throughout the world.
“An absurdist, pseudo-scientific literary trope…One attempt at a definition might be to say that ‘pataphysics is…the science of imaginary solutions.” Hilariously perplexing and intriguing Oulipean philosophy!
See also: Oulipo.
“An unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, on which the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously direct the travellers, with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience.” One of my favorite activities!
See also: Psychogeography.
Amazing blog on urbanism and architecture and the built environment, but also the fascinating intersections of those fields with things like literature, technology, and more.
See also: Cryptoforests and Spatial Folklore.
See also: Computational Mythologies: An Interview with Zachary Mason.
Machinations of business; vectors of transaction; the how and why of making a living in useful and sustainable ways (or trying to!)
Patrick is a prolific writer on topics from software development to online business to content marketing to career advice; his material is pretty uniformly precise, thorough, and helpful.
See also: Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 7: Launching New Products.
Peeking beneath the surfaces, structures, and assumptions of how things are made and displayed.
Maybe the coolest personal portfolio site ever — and on top of that, full of tremendously important thinking about design, tool-making, creativity, and understanding complex systems.
See also: Explorable Explanations.
See also: Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction.
Lots of great work and thoughtful essays around publishing, photography, digital creation and more.
See also: Subcompact Publishing.
See also: Post-Artifact Books and Publishing.
Thinking about living; thinking about thinking; analyzing and annotating oneself and sharing the process with others.
It would be too easy to call Ben Franklin a genius; more importantly, he was a man who was good at not only thinking, but going from ideas to reality.
See also: Junto (club).
Exploring interesting things with other interesting people.
Conceptually dense, self-referential, always intriguing, and home to both one of the web's consistently great thinkers and (more recently) a bevy of thought-provoking guest posts.
See also: The Calculus of Grit.
See also: The Epic Story of Container Shipping.
A “front porch for the Internet” and awesome community and associated website for people to share memories, reflections, and conversation.
See also: A Community of Possibilities.
One of the all-time great group blogs, by a cadre a whip-smart and highly creative writer-thinkers. Its output has waned in recent years, but remains home to several of my all-time favorite ideas.
See also: the future of media? bet on events.
See also: the art of working in public.
See also: what are the new liberal arts?.
See also: stock and flow.