Writeabout

Data is often presented as neutral, but the act of turning an experience into a number is always a translation. Where does that conversion fall short?

Describe a tool or system you use that acts as a translator between two different ways of working. What does it get right, and what does it miss?

The small web, RSS feeds, personal blogs — they exist at the edges of how most people use the internet. What do you find at the periphery of the internet that you'd recommend others go looking for?

Browser tabs you never close, folders you never open, apps that sit on page three of your home screen. What lives on the edges of your digital life and what does that say about your habits?

How much of your digital life would make sense to someone who found it in 100 years? Does it truly represent who you are as a person?

Digital archives are fragile in ways physical ones aren't. What have you lost to a dead platform, a deleted account, or a format no one can open anymore?

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?

Technology was promised to give us time back. Instead, most of us are still busier than ever. What went wrong, and is there a fix?

Digital life has quietly eroded privacy as a boundary. Where do you draw the line on what you share, and how firmly do you hold it?

The inbox — email, messages, notifications — is a container most of us are losing the battle with. How do you manage yours, and is your approach actually working?