This Post Was Originally 200 Words Longer But They Weren’t Sparking Joy By Michelle Weber Highlight “Instead of homes, we live in commodities.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Monroe, Jianan Qian, Rene Ebersole, Adi Robertson, and Kyle Chayka.
Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa. By Michelle Weber Highlight What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.
The Placeless and the Privileged By Ben Huberman Highlight On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”
Monocle: The Magazine As Boring, Lifestyle, Branding Infastructure By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Katherina Grace Thomas, James Lasdun, Kyle Chayka, Tay Wiles, and Buzz Bissinger.
How ‘International Airbnb Style’ Became the Dominant Aesthetic of Our Time By Ben Huberman Highlight From Beijing to Helsinki, quirkiness never looked more identical.
