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INDEPENDENT STUDIES

Notes from longer investigations on our relationships with care and technology.

Domestic Labor: A Study of Home as a Care Studio

◼️Syllabus: Domestic Labor ◼️What if we viewed home as a care studio?◼️Home as a site of power and resistance ◽Home as a site of recovery ◽Home as a site of civic preparation ◽Home as a site of cultural transmission ◽Home as a site of system design ◽Home as a site of self-trust

Companion Machines: A Study of AI

◼️Syllabus: Companion Machines ◼️Module 1: What if a machine could help you return to yourself?◼️Module 2: Observation is not neutral ◼️Module 3: Being remembered by a machine

Navigating Media: A Reading Course

◼️Syllabus: Navigating Media ◽Book: Second Life by Amanda Hess

Formative Concepts: A Glossary

◼️Syllabus: Formative Concepts, A Glossary ◼️Containers ◽Anti-memetics ◽Soft Power ◽Diagrammatic Thinking

CRAFT NOTES

Essays on writing, publishing and creative life.

2025

◼️Designing a care lattice that withstands variability ◼️Designing a minimum work season ◼️Designing a deep work sprint ◼️On the realities parent-artist-freelance life ◼️Writing the way you think

2024

◼️Moving writing out of the margins of my life ◼️On fostering creative renewal ◼️How I organize things ◼️On writing postpartum ◼️On practices over professions

2023

◼️Seasons of delivery vs. data collection ◼️How to design a sabbatical

2021-2022

◼️Divorcing the terms ‘journalism’ and ‘news’◼️Who gets to be a knowledge worker, and isn’t it all of us? ◼️Commentary vs. Citizenship

OTHER USEFUL NOTES

◽Should I send my kid to preschool?◽An approach to moving to a new city

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