Writing, in parts

Series.

Field Notes on Software

A short series on the craft of building things people use — what makes a tool quiet, honest, and worth keeping. Three parts, read in order or not.

On Reading

A short series on reading deliberately in an age built to distract — and on choosing, on purpose, whose words get your attention.

Mara Ellison

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