Four days, 170,000 people, and one Metallica concert later, I figured out what Salesforce is ↗
A gonzo account of the cult of enterprise software.
Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason ↗
A philosophical analysis of Facebook's fundamental failing.
A 103-year-old lexicographer has spent a century thinking about one of India’s oldest languages ↗
Interview with Ganjam Venkatasubbaiah about his long life of studying Kannada.
A eulogy for What.cd, the greatest music collection in the history of the world—until it vanished ↗
The tragedy of removing the internet's greatest music-piracy website.
The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font ↗
Reporting from Taiwan on an incredible design challenge.
This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of ↗
The genius of the _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_.
Happy lunar new year! But is it the year of the sheep or something else? ↗
An etymological dive into the Lunar New Year.
Hacked emails reveal China’s elaborate and absurd internet propaganda machine ↗
I spoke to a Chinese hacker who had obtained thousands of emails from a Chinese propaganda department, translated them, and wrote software to analyze them. Then I wrote this piece about what I found.
What fonts tell us about the global economics of the internet ↗
Design-as-development.