Recommendations

A blogger I admire, Gio, has this really nifty Recommendations page and I realised that I would love to create something similar. As Gio does, I will avoid recommending ubiquitous commercial products on this list in order to be useful. I add to this my own rule: everything listed here, which are mostly essays but are sometimes videos and sometimes stories and sometimes just interesting little nooks of the web, in chronological order, will be freely available on the internet, just a click away.

I will update this page slowly as I remember all the incredible writing I have encountered. Feel free to bookmark this page and return.

Pour mes recommendations en français: /blogue/recommandations/

• A Rant About Technology, Ursula K LeGuin (2004)
• A brief history of… Myst, Ludodrome (2016)
• Resisting Reduction, Joichi Ito (2017)
• My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?, Laurel Schwulst (2018)
• Agile as Trauma, Dorian Taylor (2020)
• Jennifer Ehle reading Pride and Prejudice (2020)
• On being honest about what you have the time to do, Ashley C. Ford (2022)
• Trans Rules of Engagement, Florence Ashley (2022)
• Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen’s Writing Style (1924 essay can be read in full here) (2022)
• Things to Write on the Bathroom Mirror After We Move In (with dry erase marker, of course) Albi (2024)
• Why Don’t We Just Kill The Kid In The Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (2024)
• billionaires want you to know they could have done physics, Angela Collier (2024)
• Tech continues to be political, Miriam Eric Suzanne (2025)