Newsletter
I have a daily newsletter that I send out on weekdays, Mondays through Fridays. It’s where I get to write in a longform manner about things that have been dwelling on my mind. Sometimes it’s current, sometimes it’s reflective, but it’s always ramble-y.
There’s something different and intimate about the act of writing for a newsletter audience: I know that the people who’re receiving what I’ve written have chosen to receive it. It feels very different from writing on my blog, and much of the proof is in the fact that I already feel like I’ve written so much. After about fifteen years of having a blog and about five years of completely failing to write on it, having the practice of publishing a daily newsletter is refreshing.
I have chosen not to archive or republish the newsletter episodes on my site. Instead, here’s links to all of my archived newsletters, hosted on Tinyletter.
You can subscribe at http://tinyletter.com/danhon.
January 2014
- 1: The Beginning
- 2: The Desire To Fix Things
- 3: Happy Birthday and Connections
- 4: Any Sufficiently Advanced Economy
- 5: Dreaming Invisible Dreams
- 6: The Short One
- 7: Rate All The Things
February 2014
- 8: We Build Worlds
- 9: Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen
- 10: My Followers, Friends and Social Objects
- 11: The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre’s Barrel
- 12: Attention, Star Trek and Cars
- 13: The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts
- 14: The Inevitable Apple TV Episode and Algorithmically Induced Sadness
- 15: I Miss Dopplr, InfiniFriends
- 16: Feynman and Adams, Surveillance
- 17: The Job To Be Done, The Ethics, The Good and The Practice
- 18: Some Thoughts On The Illustrated Primer, Fax Your GP
- 19: Not Trying Is A Signal, Peak Game, EasyHard, SnapChat
- 20: Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript
- 21: Net-Native Storytelling, Selling The Future, Always On
- 22: Infrastructure, The LCARS App Store
- 23: Hyperland and The Difficulty
- 24: This Inexplicable Future, Where Did All The Agents Go, Brittle
- 25: Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale of Things; Risks
- 26: An Alternative; Washing; Users
- 27: Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip
March 2014
- 28: Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central
- 29: That Most Peculiar Thing, Cargo Cultism, That Californian Ideology
- 30: Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion
- 31: Everything’s Made Of Blocks; How The World Works; Advances In Quantification
- 32: The Machine; Route Around Failure; The Most Expensive Selfie
- 33: BBC Heaven; Shorts
- 34: On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts
- 35: Humane Technology; They Shoot Jobs, Don’t They; On Depression
- 36: Challenge / Response (1)
- 37: Challenge / Response (2)
- 38: Challenge / Response (3)
- 39: On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service
- 40: IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends
- 41: When You’re Part Of A Team; The Dabbler
- 42: OK Google, Initiate Singularity; Random
- 43: Wearable Reckons; Mirror Neurons; More Google
- 44: Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift
- 45: Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face
- 46: Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools
- 47: Building Better Worlds; Mobile; More video
- 48: Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions
April 2014
- 49: Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds
- 50: Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television
- 51: Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds
- 52: Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds
- 53: Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh
- 54: Kill Hollywood; Not That Worried; Healthbook; Webring!
- 55: Sharing Heartbleed; A Weakness of the Heart; Zero-Day
- 56: a16z Strikes Again; Xbawks; Inside Baseball; The Continuity Field
- 57: Critical Infrastructural Vulnerability; Cultural Adaptation; The Bitcoin Moment; Carousel
- 58: Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal
- 59: Why Is This So Hard; Dependency; Chief Empathy Officer
- 60: We Have Always Been At War; Our Independence Day; Spimes, Duh
- 61: I Sense Feelings, Captain
- 62: Wearables Unworn; Look At What They Want
- 63: Disbanded; The Responsive OS