🗞️ 5 Easy Rules to Understand Technology. My latest newsletter is out now. I draw heavily from Melvin Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology, which I believe should be mandatory reading for all technologists and media ecology heads.
📚 I wrote a brief reflection on the book that was given to me by a stranger in a coffee shop. You can read that reflection by clicking here: The Housekeeper and the Professor.
💬 From Anais Nin:
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
🎵 If it weren’t for No Malice poppin’ off on the Clipse album, I would say that Chance the Rapper deserves the rapper of the year award.
In case you’re out of the loop, here is a good place to start on Chance’s recent album. And the song he dropped today with Kodak is definitely going on repeat.
❤️ Straws that don’t break, even when you stab them into the counter to open.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Ensorcell: to enchant; fascinate
🎬 Going to write about Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another soon, but in case you’re wondering; it really is as good as everyone is saying. 😍
🎞️ Excited to see that Eastman Kodak is back to selling its own film directly to distributors. Film photography is one of my favorite hobbies and increasing supply, lowering prices, makes it easier for other people to play. Would love to see more and more of a resurgence in this space.
✍️ Third spaces are alive and well. A kind stranger in a coffee shop gave me this book to read last weekend. Read the full story here: bradley-andrews.com/2025/10/0…
🗞️ My new post “Long Live Everything” is out now:
It’s not the quality of a creative act that people necessarily respond to—it is the freedom that is represented in the act. The bendings of our culture lean so heavily toward criticism, consumption, and conformity that even the smallest hint of the alternative constitutes a mini-revolution. People who slant away from the well-worn paths tend to inspire others without even being conscious of it. When someone begins doing what they want—as opposed to just doing what they’re told—it gives courage for others to do the same.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Limerence: the mental state of being madly in love or intensely infatuated, particularly when reciprocation of the feeling is uncertain.
🎵 Been listening to:
Excited to see where The Favors go from here — a really strong first project. Also, comparing Cardi B’s album to her ex-husband’s latest has been both insightful and dramatic.
📸 The view from this last weekend 🗽🌃
No, really, the biggest lie Disney ever sold was making the cockroach in Wall•E an adorable creature. Romantic fiction at its finest. 🪳❤️
If God don’t like ugly, then why did he make the cockroach? 🪳
✏️ New Word Learned:
Badinage: humorous or witty conversation
✏️ New Word Learned:
Parturition: the action of giving birth to young; childbirth
💬 From Down and Out in Paris and London:
I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think. [This fear] is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and poor are differentiated by their income and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor know this quite well.
✏️ New Word Learned:
Etiolated: having lost vigor or substance; feeble