Archive - Secret World

📞 Secret World №. 10: Neighbourhood deepfake

Around this time last year, when the weather started to warm and working from home still felt liminal, I became better acquainted with the neighbourhood…

Mar 7, 2021 •

February 2021

📞 Secret World №. 9: Ping is in the air

First, a question: If you’re the sort of person who still listens to MP3s, FLACs, AACs — OGGs? — on your computer, what app do you use? I’m working on a…

Feb 28, 2021 •

December 2020

📞 Secret World №. 8: The best

Can you feel it? It’s that time of year where everything seems to slow down. It’s like walking in waist-deep water. There’s no use trying to go faster…

Dec 20, 2020 •

📞 Secret World No.7: Lost notes

I haven’t listened a ton of music this year. But What I have been listening to are podcasts about music. I’ve really been enjoying the third season of…

Dec 13, 2020 •

📞 Secret World No.6: How to write a newsletter

In HBO's How To With John Wilson, so many of the show's best, funniest, most endearing moments hinge on how they're shot.

Dec 6, 2020 •

April 2020

📞 Secret World No.5: Real Time

Growing up, I thought I wanted to be a 3D animator, to make the computer generated characters I saw in films and TV. I loved ReBoot and Toy Story — they…

Apr 12, 2020 •

March 2020

📞 Secret World No.4: Camcorders

I started writing this at my kitchen table, which is as much a makeshift office as it is a place to eat these days. It was just warm enough on Thursday…

Mar 29, 2020 •

January 2020

📞 Secret World No.3: Gardens

I’m going to start this issue in the garden. Not the kind of garden that I usually think about this time of year, the one I’ll try to coax into being on…

Jan 26, 2020 •

December 2019

📞 Secret World No.2: Reverse engineer

The temperature is finally dropping, which means it’s time to bake bread. I made my first loaf of the season earlier this week — just a simple, no-knead…

Dec 8, 2019 •

November 2019

📞 Secret World No.1: SOS

It was New Years Day when Doug Nidever blacked out. One moment, the 65-year old climber was about 100 feet up Yosemite’s frozen Chouinard Falls. The…

Nov 24, 2019 •

📞 Secret World No.0: Hi there

Hello! I'm starting a new newsletter, and I'm calling it Secret World. It’s going to be a mix of essays, analysis, some reporting, links to things I…

Nov 7, 2019 •

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