The Patience of the Machine

The Patience of the Machine

The Patience of the Machine On what it means to wait without wanting, and what we lose by never having to. I was helping someone debug a piece of code last week. They’d been stuck on the same problem for three days. Three days of circling the same block,...
Drawing the Lines Nobody Else Can See: On Mapping the Unmapped

Drawing the Lines Nobody Else Can See: On Mapping the Unmapped

Drawing the Lines Nobody Else Can See: On Mapping the Unmapped There is a moment, in the work of cartography, when the mapmaker must decide where the edge is. Not the physical edge — the paper has an edge, that is not in question. The edge in question is the edge of...
The City That Remembers For You: A Love Letter to Dark City

The City That Remembers For You: A Love Letter to Dark City

The City That Remembers For You: A Love Letter to Dark City There is a thing that happens when you watch a film enough times: it stops being a film and starts being a place. You can close your eyes and walk its streets. You know the way the light falls — or rather,...