The story behind this photo is really great.

Last Light On The Creek by Steven Weinberg. https://www.stevenweinbergstudio.com/shop/lastlightprint

Personal Business "The type of business that both sustains and is sustained by a community."

Fire season.

I'm currently: thingstoclick.com/9-4-25-notes

Currently: thingstoclick.com/9-2-25-notes

grug.design “grug make design. grug not know much. but grug know pain. grug try to avoid pain. grug learn over many fire-cycles.”

"What I love about pencils is the balance they strike: you can geek out on materials, production, or mark-making, and yet some of the best pencils being made will only run you a dollar or two. So you don’t have to sweat lending one out or losing one." BTW № 3: Analog Edition

By William Mackinnon.

"Dystopia is easy. You take what people are afraid of and tell them it’s right outside their door. The cure is to open the door and see the truth for yourself. What’s on the other side of the door is your neighbors, and some of them brought donuts." How to stay hopeful: buttondown.com/monteiro/…

"There’s nothing at all wrong with honing in, developing your craft, making variations of things you’re good at, and getting better each time. Nothing small about it. Nothing unfulfilling about it." Knives and battleships: world.hey.com/jason/kni…

"There seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end up in places we don’t belong. But if we trust it, follow it, we might do something as grand as fulfilling our purpose." vague, inchoate feeling: rebeccatoh.co/vague-inc…

Bunker hallway 3: www.reddit.com/r/urbanex…

Rain by Lea Ignatius: www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object…

The wave building: www.wallpaper.com/architect…

Some things to click for your Friday.

On Additive and Extractive Technologies, “an extractive technology seeks to extract value from you instead of providing it.” Avoid. Seer, “the built environment itself is, for all intents and purposes, becoming a gigan... https://thingstoclick.com/2025/08/06/on-additive-and-extractive-technologies/

Some things I liked this week: Photos of Baltimore at Night. BS 2000 a Beastie Boy adjacent project. Good advice from Chris Glass: Send the Card. The Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee. Enjoying some epic late summer skies.

From Found Way, an amazing are.na collection of wayfinding, signs, etc.

Great sky last night.

Look: The art of Sebastian Foster

Look: The art of Kristin Moore

Watch: a summer without algorithms.

Read: The sound of inevitability: “These are some big names in the tech world, all framing the [AI] conversation in a very specific way. Rather than “is this the future you want?”, the question is instead “how will you adapt to... https://thingstoclick.com/2025/07/24/read-the-sound-of-inevitability/

Sites I like: The HTML Review, Issue 04

Look: Polaroid celebrates the analogue way of life in Flip camera campaign

Read: what “creative magnet” means to me

Read: I’m Pretty Sure I Would Remember That

Sites I like: ambient.garden

Podcast: Breaking the Internet, 30 years of web history to answer the bewildering question many ask when they go online today: “How did we get here?”

Words: Petrichor, the smell of rain.

Sites I like: Artemis, a calm web reader.

Listen: new Public Enemy album.

Look: the art of Shuan Tan.

Sites I like: linkitylink.lol

Look: the art of nata metlukh. The animated GIFs are a delight.

Sites I like: Pathfinder

Watch: Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts

Read: Work dailies

Read: Working from home makes us happier

"One particularly sleepless night, I found myself spiraling into what I’ve come to think of as “the advocacy paradox”: If I succeed completely in paying off all lunch debt, will that remove the urgency required to change the... https://thingstoclick.com/2025/06/18/one-particularly-sleepless-night-i/

This is the story of Possibly Chaos and Text Goblin. I have no idea if it’s true, but it’s a nice.

Sites I like: miocene.io

Some links for you to click: buttondown.com/things/archi...

“We’re getting to the point where ghosts are real. The future is here, valuing magic and mystery over reality. Not only are we aware of the difference, but we’re at peace with it.” Louis Rosenfeld in reference to this.

My Brain Finally Broke: “The phone eats time; it makes us live the way people do inside a casino, dropping a blackout curtain over the windows to block out the world, except the blackout curtain is a screen, showing too much of the world, too quickly.”

Movement “I wish I spent more time moving atoms and less time moving symbols. It is far more rewarding to make things with atoms than symbols. Atomic creations are the things to be most proud of. The symbols on the screens should help... https://thingstoclick.com/2025/04/29/movement-i-wish-i-spent/

The data behind remote work: Remote work companies save $10K per employee and employees are 5-10% more productive. /via Chris Glass

Abundance in a Time of Scarcity: “Covey’s take was “an abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinion, possessions, or associations.” In my experience, that internal security overfl... https://thingstoclick.com/2025/04/29/abundance-in-a-time-of/