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#137: Cigarette Beach
I’ve noticed more people comparing social media to smoking lately, which is a compelling but limited analogy. The parallels are obvious: Both feel great…
Drew Austin
Sep 18, 2020
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#162: Minimum Viable Self
Two decades ago, before social media existed, Zygmunt Bauman articulated a perfect description of how it would soon shape our behavior and frame our…
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Jun 18, 2021
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#136: Bright Lights, Big City
The last newsletter I sent that wasn’t haunted by COVID-19 went out on February 21, a day I remember vividly. I went to a Knicks game that evening and…
Drew Austin
Sep 4, 2020
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#148: Steady Diet of Nothing
Last week I linked to this piece by Molly Fischer about the “Millennial aesthetic” (published in March 2020 but new to me). You can probably conjure an…
Drew Austin
Jan 15, 2021
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Blip Culture
Yesterday, the Y2K Aesthetic Institute, which curates “late ‘90s-2003 futurism,” posted a thread of ‘90s rave flyers (scanned from a 1999 book called…
Drew Austin
Mar 1
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#173: Experimental Jet Set
A year ago I tweeted that when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update is being pushed to everyone's brain.” I’d recently noticed…
Drew Austin
Dec 4, 2021
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#164: Halcyon + On + On
Here’s the top comment on the YouTube video for “Heaven or Las Vegas” by the Cocteau Twins: “The vibe of this song makes me feel like I’m a high school…
Drew Austin
Jul 16, 2021
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#172: Running Up That Hill
Whenever supply chains become a topic of mainstream discussion, as they have lately, we all become aware, however briefly, of our own individual…
Drew Austin
Oct 29, 2021
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#149: Listen, the Snow Is Falling
A few years ago a friend and I were hanging out and decided we should both try posting something to Instagram that would get zero likes (or as few likes…
Drew Austin
Jan 22, 2021
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#175: Pre-Millennium Tension
First, thanks for a fun year—sending this newsletter is rewarding because you read it (even if you stop reading after this sentence), and in 2021 I…
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Dec 31, 2021
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#146: What Burns Never Returns
As this year limps across the finish line, it’s a perfect time to revisit one of my favorite quotes, from cybernetics pioneer Norbert Wiener: “There are…
Drew Austin
Dec 18, 2020
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#170: Version Control
In an apparent effort to provoke a large swath of my age group, Pitchfork announced earlier this week that it was revising its numeric ratings for 19…
Drew Austin
Oct 8, 2021
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