Selections

Sennett on the desire to do a job well for its own sake. The chapter on the resistant material is the one I return to.

Alexander before the patterns. Decomposition as a method, and the honest admission at the end that it did not work.

The best-documented performance work I know of. Read the release notes as essays.

Shirky's case for software built for a few dozen people you know. Twenty years old and increasingly relevant.

What I put on when a problem needs four uninterrupted hours.

Twenty-eight minutes of still images that move more than most footage. A lesson in how little is required.