everyone’s book picks, btw: @iscoe, splitting an order by ted kooser @ettinger, confessions of an advertising man by david ogilvy @anuatluru, animal farm by george orwell @arakharazian, john & paul by ian leslie @kneelingbus, understanding media by marshall mcluhan @freialobo, close to the machine by ellen ullman @left_pad, tools for conviviality by ivan illich @jackiehluo, games: agency as art by c. thi nguyen @jacksondahl, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees by lawrence weschler @Jhovde2121, dataclysm by christian rudder @barsisyphus, seeing like a state by james scott @kasrak, creativity, inc. by ed catmull @katiewav, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees by lawrence weschler (2x!) @thesephist, diaspora by greg egan @m1shti, the journalist and the murderer by janet malcolm @sebkrier, a canticle for leibowitz by walter miller @kickingkeys, spacesuit: fashioning apollo by nicholas de monchaux we had a lot of fun with this one, excited for the next

not every successful company has a rich culture around writing, but i’d guess that every genre-defining company does (i.e., anthropic, stripe, and google come to mind) from this great @karinanguyen piece