Writeabout

In a future where every human decision is routed through a global AI to find the path of least resistance, one person begins making deliberately inefficient choices — and the system notices.

Gardens are often seen as a place of refuge, growth, and patience. What role does tending to something living — whether a garden, a plant, or anything that needs care — play in your life?

How has an event from the last twenty years quietly changed the way you live, work, or see the world today?

In a world of endless digital content, the physical book stubbornly persists. What is your relationship with books — do you still read them, have you abandoned them, or do they sit on your shelf as aspirational objects?

As screens creep into every corner of modern life, some spaces still resist — the sauna, the swimming pool, the hiking trail. What are the last places where you are truly without technology, and what do you notice about yourself there?

Coffee is one of the most universal daily rituals — but everyone's relationship with it is different. Describe your relationship with coffee, or if you don't drink it, the ritual that replaces it.

We're bound by constraints that affect all of us, e.g. time. If you could remove a single constraint, what would it be and why?

Write a piece told entirely in tempo — a frantic paragraph, then a slow one, then something that stutters and repeats. Let the structure carry the meaning, not just the words.

"Slow" is often used as a criticism. Write a defence of slowness in one area of modern life where speed is currently assumed to be the goal.

Seasons impose a rhythm on the natural world, but modern life has largely insulated us from that. What have we gained — and what have we lost from seasonal rhythm?